Upcoming library programs feature dream shapers drum circle Saturday and poetry reading

African and Latin percussionist Chazz Ross will use 20 Djembe drums to present an interactive drum-circle at the library, 208 N. Harvard Ave. Ross will also give a talk on exotic instruments to children and families, who will get to sing and play rhythms together.

- Eloise Klein Healy and Frances McConnel's poetry will be featured at 2 p.m. Feb. 27 at the library. The Friends of the Claremont Library Poetry Reading will feature Healy's work, which includes here recent work "The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho." While Healy has published six books of poetry, McConnel has published two: "Gathering Light" and "The Direction of Longing." McConnel also co-chairs the Library Poetry Series.

For more information, contact 909-621-4902 or www.colapublib.org.