Bookshop Santa Cruz presents leading forest ecologist Suzanne Simard discussing her debut book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, free, online, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.bookshopsantacruz.com/SuzanneSimard)
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)