Center for Literary Arts presents Leila Mottley reading from her latest books, Nightcrawling, a novel, winner of the Northern California Book Award, and Poems for Reckoning Day, Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose, free, 7:00 pm PDT (Reserve tickets: hammertheatre.vbotickets.com)
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)