The Arts Research Center presents poet and essayist Deborah A. Miranda, A Tribal Memoir, winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, reading and discussing her work, in conversation with educator and author Estelle Tarica, The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalist, Maude Fife Room 315, Wheeler Hall, Berkeley, free, 2:00-3:15 pm PST (More information here: www.arts.berkeley.edu)
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)