The Beat Museum presents an evening of poetry featuring poet Kurt Schweigman, reading from his new collection, Confluences of Solitude, joined by San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck, Exile Heart, The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.kerouac.com/beat_event/confluences-of-solitude-kurt-schweigman-kim-shuck)
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)