City Lights Books celebrates the launch of 100 Boyfriends, by writer and musician Brontez Purnell; the book is a collection of vignettes of the lives of queer men, at times irreverent and darkly funny, at others deeply moving and vulnerable, in conversation with novelist and poet Melissa Broder, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PST (RSVP to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3742)
Fourth Saturdays Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Nancy Lynée Woo, poet and teaching artist, and Ron Koertge, Pandora's Kitchen: Poems, award-winning poet and young adult novelist, Helen Renwick Library, 208 North Harvard Avenue, Claremont, free, 2:00 pm (www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)