FOURTH SATURDAYS POETRY READINGS
Poetry at the Claremont Public Library
208 Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA
September 26 2026 at 2:00 PM
Join us on Saturday, October 24, 2026 to meet and hear poets Jennifer K. Sweeney & Penelope Moffet. More information coming soon!
Saturday, September 26, 2026, we had the pleasure of hearing poets Maurya Simon and Adam O. Davis read their poetry.
Maurya Simon’s twelfth poetry volume, The Blue Bridge, was released in 2026. Her penultimate volume, La Sirena: A Novella in Verse, was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominee. The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems received the 2019 Independent Booksellers Association’s Gold Medal in Poetry. A Fulbright Senior Research Fellow (South India), NEA Poetry Fellow, and Poetry Society Lucille Medwick Memorial and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awardee, Simon’s served residencies at the American Academy in Rome, Baltic Centre for Writers & Translators, Hawthornden Castle, and MacDowell Colony. Her poems have been translated into Hebrew, French, Spanish, Romanian, Bengali, Greek, and Farsi. She lives in Claremont, California.
Adam O. Davis is the author of Pyrrhic Symphony (University of Nebraska Press, 2026), winner of the Raz/Shumaker Book Prize, and Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. The recipient of awards from Poetry International and the Poetry Society of America, his work has appeared in AGNI, The Believer, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and ZYZZYVA. He lives in San Diego where he teaches English literature at The Bishop’s School.
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Saturday, September 26, 2026, we had the pleasure of hearing poets Maurya Simon and Adam O. Davis read their poetry.
Maurya Simon’s twelfth poetry volume, The Blue Bridge, was released in 2026. Her penultimate volume, La Sirena: A Novella in Verse, was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominee. The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems received the 2019 Independent Booksellers Association’s Gold Medal in Poetry. A Fulbright Senior Research Fellow (South India), NEA Poetry Fellow, and Poetry Society Lucille Medwick Memorial and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awardee, Simon’s served residencies at the American Academy in Rome, Baltic Centre for Writers & Translators, Hawthornden Castle, and MacDowell Colony. Her poems have been translated into Hebrew, French, Spanish, Romanian, Bengali, Greek, and Farsi. She lives in Claremont, California.
Adam O. Davis is the author of Pyrrhic Symphony (University of Nebraska Press, 2026), winner of the Raz/Shumaker Book Prize, and Index of Haunted Houses (Sarabande, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. The recipient of awards from Poetry International and the Poetry Society of America, his work has appeared in AGNI, The Believer, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and ZYZZYVA. He lives in San Diego where he teaches English literature at The Bishop’s School.
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Fourth Saturday Poetry Readings are free and open to the public. Books will usually be available for purchase. Please note that Fourth Saturdays follow Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. Please follow local COVID-19 protocols as needed and make the choices (such as wearing a mask and maintaining social distancing) that make you feel most comfortable.
Upcoming Fourth Saturdays Poetry Readings at 2:00 PM unless otherwise noted.
Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library is a free monthly poetry reading series organized by local poets Lucia Galloway Dick, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Genevieve Kaplan, George Hammons and Chloe Martinez.
https://www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry
Also, visit us on Facebook at Poets & Poetry in Claremont
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Would you be interested in reading your poetry at a Fourth Saturdays Poetry Reading?
Please apply at https://form.jotform.com/81575268800158 s
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This series is supported by the Friends of the Claremont Helen Renwick Library.
Upcoming Fourth Saturdays Poetry Readings at 2:00 PM unless otherwise noted.
- October 24, 2026: Jennifer K. Sweeney & Penelope Moffet
- November 28, 2026: Poets About Town Open Mic
Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library is a free monthly poetry reading series organized by local poets Lucia Galloway Dick, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Genevieve Kaplan, George Hammons and Chloe Martinez.
https://www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry
Also, visit us on Facebook at Poets & Poetry in Claremont
https://www.facebook.com/groups/193631171279213
Would you be interested in reading your poetry at a Fourth Saturdays Poetry Reading?
Please apply at https://form.jotform.com/81575268800158 s
Note: blue links open in a new browser window.
This series is supported by the Friends of the Claremont Helen Renwick Library.