Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic features Gay Garland Reed at 7 p.m. Aug. 8 at Art at the Cave, 108 E. Evergreen Blvd., Vancouver. There’s a $5 suggested donation to attend. Make donations through Christopher Luna’s PayPal account (christopherjluna@gmail.com). Include a memo stating that the money is for Ghost Town Poetry. Garland Reed, Ph.D. is a professor emerita from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where she taught for over two decades. She also taught in Korea as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 70s, and in China and the Middle East. She is the author of two chapbook, “Dragonfly Spirit” and “Transitory Moments: Poetry That Explores Impermanence.” She relocated to Vancouver from Hawaii a decade ago.