WA poet laureate Elizabeth Austen coming to Odessa

The Friends of the Odessa Public Library are inviting the public for an evening of poetry written and presented by Elizabeth Austen, Washington state’s Poet Laureate for 2014-2016, on October 14 at 7 p.m.

“My motivation for being poet laureate is, I think, that without even knowing it, people want what poetry offers. They want language for what feels large. Large in the sense of awe or large in the sense of grief or large in the sense of mystery,” says Austen.

“One of the most amazing things about poetry in this state is that we have the whole gamut: from the very experimental to slam poetry t...