Stories Books and Café welcomes Chloé Caldwell to celebrate her new book, Trying, a memoir that intimately captures a self in the process of becoming, in conversation with author Michelle Tea, Stories Books and Café, 1716 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 pm (storiesla.com)
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)