DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood, welcomes Jennifer Croft, Homesick, with TV writer, memoirist and librettist Sarah LaBrie, for a discussion about Croft's new book, The Extinction of Irena Rey, Diesel Brentwood, 225 26th Street, Suite 33, Santa Monica, free, 6:30 pm PDT (For more information and to reserve a seat, visit: www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Jennifer-Croft-Sarah-LaBrie-Author-signing)
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)