City Lights Books presents short story writer Uwem Akpan, Say You're One of Them, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and PEN Open Book Prize, reading from his new novel, New York, My Village, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.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)