City Lights Books presents fiction writer and poet Barry Gifford, Roy's World, Wild At Heart, celebrating the launch of his new collection, How Chet Baker Died: Poems, online, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events/barry-gifford)
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)