Green Apple Books presents a celebration of the release of environment and science reporter Zoe Schlanger's new nonfiction book, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, she will be joined by reporter and science writer Rose Eveleth, Green Apple Books, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-zoe-schlanger-rose%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B-eveleth)
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)