Diesel, A Bookstore presents journalist and fiction writer Alexis Deutsch-Adler, reading from her new book, I've Been Thinking, a collection of ten vivid pieces complemented by her own artwork, followed by a book signing, in-person, Diesel, A Bookstore, 225 26th Street, Santa Monica, free, 6:30 pm PDT (More information here: www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Alexis-Deutsch-Adler-Author-signing)
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)