San José Poetry Festival presents the Youth Poetry Workshop, parents and children are welcome to participate, facilitated by Mighty Mike McGee, paper and pencils provided; Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San Jose, free, 4:00 to 5:30 (www.pcsj.org/festival-2025)
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)