Bookshop Santa Cruz presents novelist and editor Morgan Jerkins, reading and discussing her new novel, Caul Baby, $29 (includes hardcover copy of the book, ticket prices may vary to include shipping), online, 6:00 pm PDT (Purchase tickets here: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/morgan-jerkins)
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)