Womb House Books presents a celebration and exploration of the American Girl doll-verse, with Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler, co-editor of An American Girl Anthology: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe, Womb House Books, Temescal Alley, 470 49th Street, Oakland, free, 6:00 (www.eventbrite.com/o/womb-house-books-79447203573)
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)