Marin Poetry Center presents a reading featuring Bay Area poets Sally Ashton, Listening to Mars, Susan Cohen, Democracy of Fire, and Amy Glynn, inaugural Poet Laureate for the Cities of Lafayette and Orinda, Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 6:30-8:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: marinpoetrycenter.org)
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)