Medicine for Nightmares presents spoken word artist and poet Aideed Medina, celebrating her new book, 31 Hummingbird, with a launch party featuring music, poetry, and food, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm PDT (More information here: medicinefornightmares.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)