City Lights celebrates No.23 in their Spotlight Poetry Series, Isthmus to Abya Yala, by the former Milwaukee Poet Laureate Roberto Harrison, the title refers to the American continent, Abya Yala or "land of vital blood," a Pre-Columbian term of the Guna people which signifies the idea of a decolonized "New World" by indigenous groups,
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)