City Lights Books presents Benjamin Gucciardi, I Ask My Sister's Ghost, celebrating the launch of his new poetry collection, West Portal, winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, in conversation with poet Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine, 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)