Skylight Books welcomes Rax King to discuss her new book of personal essays unpacking bad behavior, Sloppy: Or, Doing It All Wrong, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (www.skylightbooks.com/event)
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)