The Bay Area Book Festival presents YA novelist Marie Lu, in an onstage conversation with author Alisha Rai about love on the run, David Brower Center, Tamalpais Room, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, free, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.baybookfest.org)
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)