Green Apple Books presents novelist Patricia Engel, Vida, winner of the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana and finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award, celebrating the release of her short story collection, The Faraway World, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PST (More information here: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-patricia-engel)
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)