The UCSC Literature Department—Creative Writing Programs present the Winter 2023 Living Writers Series, featuring novelist Sara Freeman, Tides, 2022 Bridge Book Award-winner, Humanities 1 Lecture Hall 206, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, free, 5:20-6:55 pm PST (More information here: creativewriting.ucsc.edu/news-events/living-writers-series/index.html)
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)