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FRIDAY LITERARY NIGHT - Celebrates National Poetry Month (April 15)
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Friday Literary Night is a free monthly event in Baker City, beginning at 7:00pm and open to all ages. It is located at Crossroads Carnegie Arts Center, 2020 Auburn Ave in Baker City and sponsored by Betty’s Books, the Writers Guild of Eastern Oregon and the Baker County Library District.
Baker City’s Second Friday Literary Night is celebrating National Poetry Month by making a poetic slide into the 3rd Friday in April (4/15/11), and welcoming regional two poets, Karena Youtz (pronounced “yoots”), of Boise, ID and Bette Lynch Husted of Oregon.
National Poetry Month is celebrated every April, as publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture.
Karena Youtz is a poet living and working in Boise, Idaho. Her book, The
Shape is Space, was published by Privity Press in 2009. In the past year, she has been featured on PBS NewsHour (Dec 31 2010) and was “Poet in Residence” at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA in April 2010. From November 19, 2009 to February 26, 2010 she wrote 100 poems in 100 days as a bet with the poet Adrian Kien. Poems about her son appear in the anthology Not For Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing (Fence Books, 2007). In 2006, Karena rode the Wave Poetry Bus from Montana to Idaho. Since 2004, she has been working on an epic trilogy in two books called The Dark Reaction and All Colors Bones. Samples of Karena's poetry can be read < here >.
Bette Lynch Husted is the author of "Above the 
Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land." With her debut full-length collection of poems, "At This Distance" published by Wordcraft in 2010, Bette has turned her attention to Oregon, her longtime home -- and in particular to the wild, lonesome stretches between the state's east and west borders. In July 2010, she was interviewed for "Live at Fishtrap" on OPB radio's "Think Out Loud" in Enterprise. In January 2011, she was featured by The Oregonian in the Sunday Books section. One of Bette's works can be read < here >.
Library Director Perry Stokes says “Come celebrate the end of Tax Day with the soothing sounds of poetry. Delicious light refreshments will be provided. Sandals, turtlenecks and berets are not required—but it would be extra groovy if everyone dressed that way.”
