Community Diversity Link is inviting attendees to an event called "It's All About Poetry" on October 8, 2013 from 8-9:30 am in the Platt Global Classroom. The event will feature Samiya Bashir, a Reed College professor of creative writing and award-winning poet, who will join via Skype. Also present will be Rick Rees, an OES English instructor, and his students. Samiya Bashir is a founding organizer of an advocacy organization and writer's festival for LGBT writers of African descent who currently teaches creative writing at Reed College.