Strong Words presents an LGBTQ+ version of their spoken word pop-up featuring poets: Roy Cruz, Natalie Nicole Dressel, Josh Gershick, Gay Old Girls, Larry Dean Harris, and Liz Lachman; Socalo, 1920 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, $10, 7:30 pm PDT (For more information, visit: strongwordslive.com/show-socalo072724)
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)