Bird & Beckett presents a reading with featured poets Bill Vartnaw, Kit Fox Blues, and Jack Crimmins, Sonoma County Poet Laureate emeritus and author of The Nile to the Milky Way, followed by an open mic, Bird & Beckett Books and Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00-9:00 pm PDT (More information here: birdbeckett.com)
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)