Bookshop Santa Cruz presents best-selling author Anne Lamott discussing her latest book, Dusk Night Dawn: Notes on Courage, $21, all tickets come with a copy of the book, online, 6:00 pm PST (Purchase tickets here: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/anne-lamott)
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)