Second Tuesday Poetry is a monthly poetry series from the Modesto Stanislaus Poetry Center, November reading features poets Murray Silverstein, Our Own Light, and ecopoet John Shoptaw, Near-Earth Object, with open mic following guest poets, Artist Lab at the Prospect Theater Project, 1214 K Street, Modesto, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.mostpoetry.org/event/2024novsecondtues)
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)