Medicine for Nightmares presents acclaimed poet, musician, and storyteller Avotcja, celebrating her new book of poetry With Every Step I Take 2, joined by her special guest Jorge Molina, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore and Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00-7:30 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.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)