Michael Dechane: Poetry Reading & Signing

"Waiting inside each of us are lives we can't imagine living or even wanting — until upheaval or loss or what appears to be a profound mistake means we must become these people and live these lives, after all."

Join us for an evening of poetry with Michael Dechane as he presents his book The Long Invisible on February 6th, 6pm, at Hub City Bookshop.

Please RSVP to this free event to let us know you are coming.

Get a 10% discount on the book you show your RSVP at the bookshop register.

Here are poems for those days when we wake up inside some raw, unchartable place. Some trembling songs to companion us in the dark, as we go. Reminders that help and hope may be waiting for us where we never would have looked. These poems invite us to recognize and welcome, even to bless, who we truly are as we dare to set forth on paths we never asked for — which are, after all, the only way home from here.

Michael Dechane is a poet who carves wooden spoons and indulges his passion for historic home renovation. A “word-tender and wonder-vendor,” his work has appeared in Image, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River, Lake Effect, Spiritus, and elsewhere. In 2020, he was awarded Ruminate’s Broadside Poetry Prize. He serves as the VP of Communications on the Board of the North Carolina Poetry Society. With his partner, Regan, he is a custodian of a home built in 1900 in a cove forest on the French Broad River, north of Asheville, NC.

Host or Publisher Hub City Writers Project