City Lights Live! presents activist and professor Cynthia Kaufman discussing and reading from her recent nonfiction book, Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World, online via Zoom, register on Eventbrite.com, 6:00 pm PDT (www.citylights.com/info/?fa=events)
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)