Gatsby Books presents a poetry reading with open mic, featuring GoldScriptCo, a publishing company of chapbooks and poetry, followed by a book signing, in-person, Gatsby Books, 5535 E Spring Street, Long Beach, free, 6:30-9:00 pm PDT (For more information: www.gatsbybooks.com/events)
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)