City Lights Books presents poet and novelist adrienne maree brown, discussing her new book, Maroons: A Grievers Novel, published by AK Press, in conversation with filmmaker and writer dream hampton, executive producer of the 2019 Lifetime documentary series Surviving R. Kelly, online via Zoom, free, Noon 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)