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First Friday Poetry Night!with Amy Baskin, Alina Cruz, and Emma Krall
Friday, October 4, 2024
7:00-8:30 PM
Birdhouse Books
1001 Main Street
Vancouver, WA, 98660
Birdhouse Books and Christopher Luna welcome poets Amy Baskin, Alina Cruz, and Emma Krall for October’s First Friday Poetry Night!
First Friday Poetry Night! is a poetry series featuring an everchanging slate of talented local poets hosted by Birdhouse Books and Christopher Luna. Catch us each First Friday at 7pm in the heart of VDA’s Art Walk. Drop by early to browse the books, soak in the art, and pick up some delicious treats upstairs at Short & Sweet before the show.
Amy Baskin is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, an Oregon Literary Arts Fellow, and an Oregon Poetry Association prize winner. Her work can be found in anthologies and journals including the HOCUS Tarot, Pirene’s Fountain, Friends Journal, and SWWIM. When not writing, she works for the Departments of English and History at Lewis & Clark College and helps run literary arts programs including Fir Acres Writing Workshop, a residential summer program for high school students with a multicultural, multinational reach. She is the author of the chapbook HYSTERICAL CAKE (Dancing Girl Press, 2021), and the full-length collection NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023). SKULL, her exploration of injury and healing, will be published by The Poetry Box this December.
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Alina Cruz (she/ella) is a senior art history major and poetry minor at Lewis and Clark College. Alina is from San Diego, California, and spends most of her time yearning for the desert and Latino community she grew up in. Alina is a 3rd generation Chicano, a proud "no sabo" kid learning Spanish, and has been writing poetry since she was in elementary school, particularly enjoying sonnets for much of her childhood. Her work is heavily inspired by that of Gloria Anzaldua, Jeanne Cordova, and Raquel Gutierrez, and the cholo fashion she grew up around and now studies. She will be reading from two chapbooks, Garden of Eden and That Which Has Been Lost.
Lifelong child Emma Krall is just happy to be here. A self-taught poet, musician, and visual artist, she strives to find and create accessible spaces that spotlight art in all of its messiness. She loves punk rock, soft lighting, her stuffed animals, and perfect bites of food. A senior at Lewis & Clark College with majors in History and English, Emma spends most of her life reading. Her poetry has appeared in the Wilderness House Literary Review, Palatine Hill Review, and on bookmarks for her school's annual Moss Appreciation Week. Passionate about self publication, Emma produces and distributes comic zines to her community in hopes of making at least one person's day a small amount better. She leads workshops in zinemaking and intends to obtain a Masters in Teaching to become a high school teacher following graduation in Spring 2025.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Birdhouse Books, 1001 Main St, Vancouver, WA 98660-2894, United States,Vancouver, Washington
