The Langley Library will host a reading of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ works in celebration of his centennial year.

The reading will take place at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14.

Barry Kraft and Kevin Lynch, both veterans of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, will share poems, prose and letters.

Kraft worked with the venerable Shakespearean festival in Ashland, Oregon, for 26 years as dramaturge, lecturer and actor and has performed professionally in all of Shakespeare’s 38 plays.

Lynch, a Langley resident, has held a fellowship at America’s longest continuously running regional theater, the Alley Theatre in Houston, and has toured playing Shakespearean characters in Montana, California and Seattle.

Both Kraft and Lynch have had a lifelong affinity with Thomas and his writings.

Lynch noted that the reading is timely not only due to the centennial anniversary of the writings but because in Chris Nolan’s newly released film “Interstellar,” Michael Caine reads Thomas’ famous poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” This, Lynch said, will help to introduce the poet to young theatergoers.

Some of the pieces to be read on Friday include Thomas’ letters to his close friend, Vernon Watkins, in which he comically discusses money and the means by which to get it, poems such as “Fern Hill,” “In My Craft or Sullen Art,” “The Hunchback in the Park” and “Poem in October.”

Some passages from Sidney Michaels’ play, “Dylan,” about the poet will be read, as will nine minutes from Thomas’ “Reminiscences from Childhood” that was written in his book of stories and essays entitled, “Quite Early One Morning” and, also from this book, a reading of “Memories from Christmas,” which later became “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”

“Dylan Thomas was the greatest lyric poet of the twentieth century — excluding Yeats. If you’re Irish and don’t list Yeats first you get struck with an Irish thunderbolt,” wrote Lynch in an email to The Record. “But Thomas’ ability to cross over literary circles was spectacular. He was a brilliant poet but also a wonderful writer of prose (Milkwood et al). His letters can be astonishing in their creativity and frankness. His tours and womanizing and drinking are legendary, but so was his delivery.”