Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic
Featuring Gay Garland Reed
Hosted by Christopher Luna and Morgan Paige
7 pm
Thursday, August 8
Art At The Cave
108 E Evergreen Blvd
Vancouver, WA 98660
ANTI-RACIST, LGBTQ+ FRIENDLY, PRO-SCIENCE, ANTI-FASCIST,
PRO-CHOICE, ALL AGES, AND UNCENSORED SINCE 2004
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$5 Suggested donation
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Donations can be made in person or through Christopher Luna’s PayPal account (christopherjluna@gmail.com). Include a memo stating that the money is for Ghost Town Poetry.
Gay Garland Reed, Ph.D. is a professor emerita from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where she taught for over two decades. She also taught in Korea as a Peace Corps Volunteer back in the 70s, and in China and the Middle East. After many years of academic writing and retirement in 2014, in 2017 she self-published a small chapbook of poems called Dragonfly Spirit. In 2022 she published a second chapbook called Transitory Moments: Poetry That Explores Impermanence. She relocated to Vancouver, Washington from Hawai‘i a decade ago.
November 2024 is the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic. This year’s featured readers will include William Erickson, Bruce Hall, Clark County Poet Laureate Susan Dingle and Debra Elisa.
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The Ghost Town Poetry community respectfully encourages you to support Niche Wine Bar, whose owner, Leah Jackson, provided a home for the reading series from 2015-2020. Stop by their new location at 900 Washington, Suite 130 Vancouver, WA 98660: https://nichewinebar.com.
UPDATED Statement on Healthy Spaces from Art at the Cave: We want to provide a healthy space to enjoy art. We have been practicing safety precautions such as regular cleaning, social distancing and mask wearing. As a result of the removal of the mask mandate effective March 12, 2022, we will no longer require the wearing of masks. We encourage you to continue to wear a mask if it makes you feel more comfortable, and we will supply masks and hand sanitizer at the door. As social distancing has become a norm, please be mindful some will still need a bit of personal space while inside the gallery.
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