Green Apple Books on the Park features Grant Faulkner, The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story, Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PST (More information here: greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-grant-faulkner-melanie-abrams)
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)