City Lights Books presents novelist and essayist Gina Apostol, Insurrecto, Gun Dealers' Daughter, discussing her award-winning debut novel Bibliolepsy, now available for the first time in the U.S., in conversation with journalist and cartoonist Malaka Gharib, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Novel, free, online via Zoom, 6:00 pm PST (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)