Litquake presents essayist and nonfiction writer Lauren Hough, discussing her new book, Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing, a memoir in essays, in conversation with memoirist Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land, online, free, 6:00-7:30 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.litquake.org)
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)