Point Reyes Books presents journalist and nature writer Cal Flyn discussing her new book, Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape, about spaces on earth abandoned by humans, whether from war, disease, or other disasters, that nature has sprung and reclaimed in astounding ways, free, online, Noon PDT (Register to attend: www.ptreyesbooks.com/event/cal-flyn)
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)