Bookshop Santa Cruz presents a poetry reading and book launch for Santa Cruz Poet Laureate David Allen Sullivan, reading from his new book, Black Butterflies Over Baghdad, joined by poet Farnaz Fatemi, Sister Tongue, winner of the Wick Poetry Prize, free, online, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/david-sullivan)
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)