San José Poetry Festival presents the Closing Night Gathering, not a reading, but a post-festival get together to relax and bask in the company of poets and friends, Markham House at History Park, 1650 Phelan Avenue, San Jose, free, no ticket needed, 5:00-8:00 (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)