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Wendy Willis and David Biespiel

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We welcome Wendy Willis and David Biespiel to Broadway Books on Tuesday, March 5th, at 7 pm to read from their new books and talk about writing in multiple genres, how they decide which genre works best for the material, and the ramifications of those decisions. Wendy Willis's new collection of essays is These are Strange Times, My Dear: Field Notes from the Republic, published by Counterpoint Press. David Biespiel's new collection of poems is Republic Café, published by the University of Washington Press In These are Strange Times, My Dear, Willis explores everything from personal resistance to the rise of political podcasts, civic loneliness to the exploitation of personal data, public outrage to the opioid crisis -- all with a poet's gift for finding…

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