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First Matter Press 2020 Book Release

Cathedral Park N Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue, Portland

Come join First Matter Press for a Poetry Reading in the Park to celebrate our 2020 Titles, featuring Peter Hamer, Eitan Codish, K. M. Lighthouse, Dan Wiencek and Lauren Paredes. Sunday, September 13, 2020 Cathedral Park, Portland OR (underneath the St. John's Bridge) Gather at 5:30pm Readings begin at 6pm Physical distancing and masks required. Please bring your own blanket/chair, drinks and snacks. Questions? firstmatterpress@gmail.com Rain? Check our website firstmatterpress.org for weather updates

Free

Mike Birbiglia & J. Hope Stein Ticketed Event

Online N/A, Portland

In The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad (Grand Central), comedian Mike Birbiglia devotes his unflinching and brilliant storytelling acumen to parenthood — to fatherhood — as well as how he, a man deeply determined never to have children, found himself with one. Nuanced, honest, hilarious, but also poignant, it’s a story that reveals not only his own but also our collective human nature — reassuring us that we’re actually all in this thing together. The New One is sprinkled with poetry by Birbiglia’s wife, J. Hope Stein, written as she navigated the same rocky shores of new parenthood. With laugh-out-loud observations on the roller coaster of being a parent, The New One is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a…

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