Books Inc. presents Irena Smith discussing and reading from her new memoir, The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admission Essays, an entertaining yet heartbreaking true story told in the form of college admissions essays, Books Inc., 855 El Camino Real #74, Palo Alto, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.booksinc.net/event/irena-smith-books-inc-palo-alto).
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)