Open Mic online, Monday 7/31.

I'll be there, and I'm reading two poems.

The event details are on Facebook. But you should also be able to access the reading directly via this Zoom link; it’s at 7pm CDT, Monday, 7/31.

In other news…

If you pay attention to such things (and if you access this through the web), you may have noticed that your browser’s address bar shows “davigray.com” rather than “davigray.substack.com”. Well, if you don’t know, now you know: you can just go to DaviGray.com to get here. Or just click the links when the email shows up in your inbox, of course.

50th Anniversary of Hip Hop Celebration, Friday, August 11th, at the Loft Literary Center (1011 South Washington Avenue #200, Minneapolis, MN 55415). 3:00-9:00 PM CDT. I would not miss this if you paid me. Unless you were, you know, hiring me for a full-time job that paid me. Then I’d probably miss it. But I would miss it (in the other sense). But I’d at least catch the last couple hours!

Erin Sharkey is reading poetry at Silverwood Park, in St. Anthony. Some music afterword, apparently, by …