San Francisco's 7th Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Pick a Garnet to Sleep In presents special guests for a poetry reading in celebration of the late beat poet ruth weiss, Desert Journal, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: sfpl.org/events/2024/07/18/performance-kim-shucks-poem-jam-celebrates-ruth-weiss)
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)