City Lights Books presents nonfiction writer Ousmane K. Power-Greene, Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement, reading from and discussing his new novel, The Confessions of Matthew Strong, a powerful story of race, redemption, and speaking out for what is right, online, free, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.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)