The arboretum announced that it will host C.J. Sage and J.P. Dancing Bear for Poetry in the Garden, and, for families, a storytime in the Redwood Grove.

Sage edits The National Poetry Review and The National Poetry Review Press, and her own poems have appeared in or are due to appear in such journals and reviews as Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, The Journal, New Orleans Review, Orion, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review and many others. Her latest book is The San Simeon Zebras.

Dancing Bear's Inner Cities of Gulls came out in 2010 and he has two more book in the works: Family of Marsupial Centaurs and Fish Singing Foxes. He is editor of the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press, and hosts Out of Our Minds on KKUP radio (Cupertino, Santa Clara County) and podcasts.

The Poetry in the Garden event is scheduled to start at noon Thursday, Nov. 3, on the Wyatt Deck (or, in the event of rain, 146 Environmental Horticulture).

Storytime Through the Seasons: Under the Redwood Tree is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, also on the Wyatt Deck (or, in the event of rain, 146 Environmental Horticulture).

Presented by the Arboretum Ambassadors environmental leadership interns, Storytime Through the Seasons will include stories, ghames and hands-on activities, the arboretum announced.

The bookstore in the Memorial Union is hosting two faculty members for book events in November:

• Tania Hammidi, lecturer, Women and Gender Studies — Judgement Day: Fashioning Masculinities, 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the MU's Special Events Room (next to the post office). Hammidi is among the essayists in this book that features 24 portraits of queer masculinities by Los Angeles and New York based photographers Lola Flash, Love Ablan and Leon Mostovoy, accompanied by writings on stud-butch self-fashioning.

• Laurie Glover, lecturer, University Writing Program, and Victor Silverman, professor, Department of History, Pomona College —
California: On the Road Histories, noon-1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, bookstore lounge. From the publisher’s website: “California: On-the-Road Histories doesn’t relate the cleaned-up tale of the California dream that school textbooks and the tourism commission tell. Rather it presents the sometimes bitter, sometimes triumphant history behind the California myth.”

All events are free and open to the public.