Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz presents a reading by Mark Sanford Gross, poet, radio host, and former Washington Post journalist, the reading will begin with improv jazz, followed by an open mic with musical accompaniment, Point Arena Community Center, 40 School Street, Point Arena, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.artsmendocino.org/event/third-thursday-poetry-jazz-at-shindig)
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)