As a part of her residency at Yosemite Gateway Art Center, poet Claire Blotter, Moment In The Moment House, reads from her latest book, Expanding.Water.Ways., which she has adapted to reflect the unique landscape and waterways of the local Sierra Nevada foothills, Sierra Meadows, 46513 Opah Drive, Ahwahnee, $20, 7:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: ygac.org/classes-and-workshops)
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)