Bookshop Santa Cruz presents best-selling author Nina LaCour, winner of the Michael L. Printz award and author of Watch Over Me, among others, discussing her new book, Yerba Buena, a love story centered around two women as their pasts collide and threaten to pull them apart, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/nina-lacour)
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)