41st Napa Valley Writers' Conference public event series presents the talk "The Work of Imagination," led by novelist Michelle Huneven, Search, in person, Performing Arts Center, Napa Valley College, 2277 Napa-Vallejo Highway, Napa, $25 at the door, $15 for students with ID, 1:30 pm PDT (More information here: www.napawritersconference.org)
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)