First Friday Poetry Night with Amy Baskin, Alina Cruz and Emma Krall

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.