Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Night features Josh Gaines

The next Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Night is 7 p.m. July 13 featuring Josh Gaines at Art at the Cave, 108 E. Evergreen Blvd., Vancouver. There’s a $5 suggested donation to attend. 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.

Gaines ditched a promising military career to write books, run a profitless press and build blanket forts with his daughter. He earned his writing MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poetry and short fiction appears in numerous anthologies and journals, as well as in his own books of poetry and flash fiction, “Cigarette Sonatas” and “little bones.” His latest chapbook is “Day of the New Windows.”