City Lights Books presents short story writer Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Brief Encounters with the Enemy, reading from his new book, American Estrangement, 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)