Former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood Kim Dower will read from and discuss her latest poetry collection, What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria, with poet Blas Falconer, Rara Avis, Warwick's, 7812 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, free, 7:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/dower-2025)
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)