City Lights Books presents short story writer Brian Everson, Song for the Unraveling of the World, reading and discussing his new book, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, in conversation with novelist Sarah Rose Etter, The Book of X, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=books_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)