Out Loud Huntsville is turning 8 years old(!!), and we're celebrating with a 10 spot open mic followed by a feature with the incredible Josh Baker!

**Masks are strongly encouraged **

Join us on April 17th at 3rd Circle Cellars at Straight to Ale. Doors/Signup at 6 PM, and the show will start promptly at 6:30 PM. Sign up and share your poetry, short stories, a piece of fiction, or any form of literary wordy goodness! Readers will get 5 minutes to share their work, please respect the time limit.

About the feature: Tuscaloosa-based poet Joshua Baker is a Huntsville native and MSW graduate from Alabama A&M University. His passions lie in minority mental health and LGBTQIA+ advocacy. He has had the opportunity to feature at Out Loud HSV and perform at 100 Thousand Poets for Change Birmingham. He has had work published in Out Loud! HSV: A Year in Review (2016-2019), Aura Literary Arts Review, and Hypertrophic Press. Baker was a member of Out Loud HSV's 2018 Poetry Slam Team and has led various poetry workshops rooted in harnessing the power that lies in our Joy, our identity, and our immutable truths. In 2020, Baker was selected as the Editor’s Choice Winner for the Button Poetry Video Contest. Baker has also self-published two poetry chapbooks entitled This Here Side of Creation (2018) and Love Poems & Other Ways to Lose A Poetry Slam (2018). He lives. He loves. He tells stories. And on most days, that's enough to foot the bill.

Out Loud Huntsville will continue hosting events at Straight to Ale on the Third Sundays of the month, so mark your calendars!