City Lights Books presents poet and editor Dorothea Lasky, Animal, reading from her new collection, The Shining, in conversation with short story writer Brian Evenson, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell: Stories, online via Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PST (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)
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)