Zara Stone, Killer Looks and Ariel Henley, A Face for Picasso, discuss their nonfiction works that explore how beauty and identity expectations permeate popular culture and their challenges when you don't live up to societal standards, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.greenapplebooks.com)
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)