Marin Poetry Center presents Robert Alter, reading from his celebrated 2018 translation of Song of Songs, followed by readings of modern love poems by Marin Poetry Center members, in-person, Osher Marin JCC, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael, 7:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: marinpoetrycenter.org/mec-events/robert-alter-reads-from-song-of-songs)
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)