Lunch Poems, a monthly poetry reading, presents Sherwin Bitsui, Dissolve; craft talk and book signing follows the reading, University of California Berkeley, Morrison Library, 101 Library Court, Berkeley, free, Noon PDT (For more information, visit: www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/lunch-poems)
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)