City Lights Books presents journalist and war correspondent Anna Badkhen, discussing her new book, Bright Unbearable Reality, a collection of essays connected by themes of communion and longing, online, free, 6:00 pm PST (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)