Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Featuring Julene Tripp Weaver at Art At The Cave November 13, 2025 [UPDATED to include photos]

Julene Tripp Weaver reads to the crowd at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic
Julene Tripp Weaver reads from Slow Now with Clear Skies,
Greg Bee’s art visible behind her
Moss and Addison find a great vantage point (photo by Morgan Paige)
Moss, Addison, and Toni Lumbrazo Luna (photo by Moregan Paige)
Elise Hoekstra and Christopher Luna by Jacob Salzer
Moss with his poetry godfather Christopher Luna (photo by Morgan Paige)
Elmo Shade reads his poetry at Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic (photo by Jacob Salzer)
Jim Martin by Jacob Salzer
Ghost Town Poetry emcee Morgan Paige by Jacob Salzer
Moss and Morgan at the mic by Jacob Salzer
Moss, the newest addition to the ghost Town Poetry family, enjoys his floor time

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic

Featuring Julene Tripp Weaver

Hosted by Christopher Luna and Morgan Paige

7 pm

Thursday, November 13

Art At The Cave

108 E Evergreen Blvd

Vancouver, WA 98660

https://artatthecave.com

ANTI-RACIST, LGBTQ+ FRIENDLY, PRO-SCIENCE, ANTI-FASCIST,

PRO-CHOICE, ALL AGES, AND UNCENSORED SINCE 2004

https://printedmattervancouver.com/

$5 Suggested donation

No one will be turned away for lack of funds

Donations can be made in person or by sending to Christopher Luna via CashApp (ChristopherLuna9), PayPal (christopherjluna@gmail.com), or Venmo (@Christopher-Luna-66). 

Julene Tripp Weaver has four poetry collections; Slow Now with Clear Skies (MoonPath Press, 2024) truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS (Finishing Line Press, 2017), which won the Bisexual Book Award, four Human Relations Indie Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards; No Father Can Save Her, (Plain View Press, 2011); and a chapbook, Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues, (Finishing Line Press, 2007). Her poems have appeared in many journals, and anthologies that include: Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice, I Sing the Salmon Home, and The Power of the Feminine I: poems from the feminine perspective, Volume 2. She worked in AIDS services for 21 years, is a retired psychotherapist, and lives in Seattle.

Send an email to printedmattervancouver@gmail.com or visit

https://christopherlunapoetry.substack.com/

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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.


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