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Matthew Dickman and Richard Tillinghast

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

We welcome back two highly regarded poets, Matthew Dickman of Portland and Richard Tillinghast of Hawaii and Tennessee, to read at 6 pm on Tuesday, September 13th. Dickman's new collection Husbandry was recently published by W.W. Norton. Written after a separation, during overwhelming single-fatherhood in the early days of Covid lockdowns, Husbandry is a love song from a father to his children. The poems refuse romantic notions of parenting and embrace all its mess, anguish, humor, fear, boredom, and warmth. They are composed entirely in vivid couplets that animate the various domestic pairs of broken-up parents, two sons, love and grief. Threading his anxieties with bright moments, the volume delights in seeing the world through the clear eyes of childhood and finds meaning in the…

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