City Lights Bookstore welcomes author Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, to discuss his latest novel, Someone Like Us, in conversation with author Eirinie Carson, The Dead Are Gods, virtual on Zoom, free, 6:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: citylights.com/events/dinaw-mengestu-in-conversation-with-eirinie-carson)
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)