The once-annual, interrupted-by-Covid-Etc.-too-long Red Dock Poetry Reading will return to the eye-popping-now-more-more-like-a-Salmon Dock (shown with Chief Tony Amato vanishing through a portal) off the end of Douglas North Union Street Wednesday, Aug. 31, from 6 to 7 p.m. Live music starting at 5 will precede it. Dress could not be casualer. Usual suspect Douglas Poet Laureate Jack Ridl will be joined near the dock end by fellow poet Kathleen Markland. Admission is free, food and beverages available. (Photo by Scott Sullivan)