The Desert Split Open Mic returns after summer break and invites you to celebrate feminist, queer, or otherwise radical poetry and prose, bring something to read or come to listen, up to six-minutes per reader, Beatnik Lounge, 61597 29 Palms Highway, Joshua Tree, free, 6:00-8:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.facebook.com/desertsplitopen)
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)