The Sammamish Arts Commission will present a poetry reading, “Calling All Poets,” by two acclaimed Washington state poets, Kathleen Flenniken and Michael Dylan Welch at 6:30 p.m., April 2 at the Sammamish Library.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a poem of their own to share.

Reservations are not required and attendance is free and open to all ages.

The poetry reading supports the Sammamish Arts Commission’s 10th anniversary theme, “Telling the Story,” and is one of several events planned in Sammamish this spring.

Flenniken is the 2012-2014 Washington State Poet Laureate. Her first book, “Famous,” won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award.

Welch, a Sammamish resident, is first vice president of the Haiku Society of America, a board member of both the Washington Poets Association (for which he has been editor of Cascade) and the Redmond Association of Spokenword (for which he serves as reading series curator).