Ventura County Poetry Project presents a reading featuring Diana Raab, An Imaginary Affair: Poems Whispered to Neruda, followed by an open mic, in-person, E.P. Foster Library, 651 East Main Street, Ventura, free, 6:30-10:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.vencolibrary.org/library-events/thursday-night-poetry-0818221830)
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)