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Join us this evening as we welcome Janet Steward as our featured poet! Sign ups start at 6:30pm and close at 7pm sharp.

$5 suggested donation / NOTAFLOF

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic happens the second Thursday at Art at the Cave in downtown Vancouver, WA. Co-hosted by Christopher Luna @christopherjluna and Morgan Paige @morganpaigepoetry .

See you tonight!

TONIGHT! Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic, National Poetry Month edition
Featuring Washington State Poet Laureate Derek Sheffield

Hosted by Christopher Luna and Morgan Paige.

Thursday, April 9 at 7pm
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

$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 (search via christopherjluna@gmail.com), Venmo (username @Christopher-Luna-66), or CashApp account (ChristopherLuna9).

Derek Sheffield is the 8th poet laureate of Washington State (2025-2027). His books include Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, winner of a 2024 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, Not for Luck, selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, Through the Second Skin, runner-up for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. A two-time finalist for the Washington State Book Award, his other awards include the Foreword Reviews Indies Book of the Year in Nature Writing and the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Li-Young Lee. He teaches at Wenatchee Valley College and Western Colorado University, edits poetry for Terrain.org, and can often be found in the woods along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range near Leavenworth, Washington.

🌀POETRY AS RADICAL RESISTANCE🌀

We sat down recently with @adrianabaer creator of the @imintothisplace podcast to talk about why we write, the importance of community and more. The podcast is live today and available on all podcasting platforms! Thank you Adriana for having us.

Link in Bio💛

*The podcast needs to be updated to reflect the accurate date of Ghost Town each month. Ghost Town Poetry happens every second Thursday of the Month, not Tuesday.

#imintothisplace #poetry #community #vancouverwa

Stop by the Clark County Historical Museum from 5-8 pm this evening during the First Friday Art walk to say hello and learn more about the services that Printed Matter Vancouver provides. We will have t-shirts, information about writing coaching and manuscript editing services, copies of the third volume of the Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic anthology, and books by Printed Matter Vancouver co-founders Toni Lumbrazo Luna and me. Hope to see you there.

https://cchmuseum.org/calendar/cchm-after-hours-printed-matter-vancouver/

Join us tonight for Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic featuring Mary Mullen, author of A Thousand Cabbages.

Sign ups start at 6:30pm / show at 7pm! $5 suggested donation.

Ghost Town Poetry happens every second Thursday At Art of the Cave, hosted by Christopher Luna and Morgan Paige.

@christopherjluna @morganpaigepoetry @cave.gallery.vancouver

Tonight! We’re excited to feature Amy Baskin as our special guest. Join us this evening at @cave.gallery.vancouver for another beautiful edition of Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic. @amybaskinwrites

$5 suggested donation / sign ups at 6:30pm show at 7pm / Hosted by Christopher Luna and guest co-host Rebecca Lynn Bluemel! @christopherjluna and @mc1rsnap

See you soon, friends❤️

We’re excited to welcome Laura Esther Sciortino tonight as our first featured poet of 2026!

As a typewriter poet, Laura offers live poetry, crafting on-the-spot custom poems for people at various events and celebrations. She loves sharing her love of improvisation, connection, and writing and 100% believes that people + poetry = magic.

💫Laura will offer typewriter poems from 6:30-7:00 at this month’s event.💫

Sign ups begin at 6:30pm, show at 7pm! $5 suggested donation, happening downtown Vancouver, WA at @cave.gallery.vancouver

Hosted by @christopherjluna and guest host @mc1rsnap (Morgan Is unable to attend tonight’s reading)

See you tonight!

TONIGHT! Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic

💫Featuring Erin Aurelia
With music by Zach Jenisch💫

Sign ups at 6:30pm, show at 7pm. Happening at @cave.gallery.vancouver downtown Vancouver, WA.

Hosted by @christopherjluna

We’re looking forward to welcoming Julene Tripp Weaver as our featured poet tonight to Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic.

Join us at 7pm at @cave.gallery.vancouver in downtown Vancouver, WA. $5 suggested donation.

Co-hosted by @christopherjluna and @morganpaigepoetry every second Thursday of the month!

Collage art by Christopher Luna.

We’re looking forward to welcoming Julene Tripp Weaver as our featured poet tonight to Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic.

Join us at 7pm at @cave.gallery.vancouver in downtown Vancouver, WA. $5 suggested donation.

Co-hosted by @christopherjluna and @morganpaigepoetry every second Thursday of the month!

Collage art by Christopher Luna.

We’re very excited to welcome Rebecca Lynn, who recently released a new book called More Water Than Tears, as our featured reader tonight!

*Erin Aurelia who was originally scheduled for tonight will now feature in December 2025.

Sign ups start at 6:30pm / show at 7pm / $5 suggested donation

Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic happens every second Thursday of the month at @cave.gallery.vancouver and is co-hosted by @christopherjluna and @morganpaigepoetry

Join us this evening for Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic featuring award-winning poet Peter Ludwin, who is traveling all the way from Tacoma to share his work with us. Hope to see you there.

Join is this evening to enjoy another edition of Ghost Town Poetry open mic, this time featuring Peter Ludwin!

Sign ups at 6:30pm / show at 7pm / $5 s.d.
Happening at @cave.gallery.vancouverco-hosted by @christopherjluna and @morganpaigepoetry