The Benicia Public Library presents local author and artist Nikki Basch Davis, discussing her new memoir, The Second Scar, a powerful account of her family in Latvia as their lives were upended by Nazi invaders and Soviet occupation, as they, along with millions of other Jewish families, fled the Baltic states, Doña Benicia Room, Benicia Public Library, 150 East L Street, Benicia, free, 7:00 pm PDT
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)