Celebrate the launch of Home Turf: A Bestiary of Sonoma County, a collaboration between author Lakin Kahn and artist Shane Weare, featuring natural histories of Sonoma County accompanied by Weare's drawings, both author and artist will speak about the work, with a short reading by Kahn, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, 1801 East Cotati Avenue, Rohnert Park, free, 5:00-7:00 pm PST
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)