Bookshop Santa Cruz presents best-selling writer and naturalist Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk, celebrating the paperback release of Macdonald's collection of essays, Vesper Flights, co-sponsored by Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks, free, online, 11:00 am PDT (Register to attend: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/vesper-flights)
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)