Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library presents a reading by poets Dorianne Laux, As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems, and Joseph Millar, Dark Harvest, New & Selected Poems, Friendship Hall at The Joshua Tree Retreat Center, 59700 Twentynine Palms Highway, Joshua Tree, free, 5:30-7:00 pm PST (RSVP to attend: www.facebook.com/events/1530658127412217)
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)