Birdhouse Books and Christopher Luna welcome poets Amy Baskin, Alina Cruz and Emma Krall for October’s First Friday Poetry Night, 7 to 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at 1001 Main St., Suite B, Vancouver. Baskin is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, an Oregon Literary Arts Fellow, an Oregon Poetry Association prize winner and author of “Hysterical Cake,” “Night Hag” and the soon-to-be-published “Skull.” San Diego-based Cruz is a senior art history major and poetry minor at Lewis and Clark College and the author of “Garden of Eden” and “That Which Has Been Lost.” Krall is a poet, musician and visual artist, who produces and distributes comic zines and leads workshops in zine-making.