The PSU Program in Creative Writing is pleased to welcome the poets Endi Bogue Hartigan and Rob Schlegel, who will read from their work. The event is free and open to the public.
Endi Bogue Hartigan's recent book oh orchid o’clock—released in 2023 from Omnidawn Publishing—explores histories of clock measure, temporal presence in today’s realities, and the impacts of our obsessions with time and instrumentation. In 2021, Oxeye Press published her series the seaweed sd treble clef, a handmade chapbook of poems and photographs. Her book Pool [5 choruses] (Omnidawn, 2014) was selected by Cole Swensen for the 2014 Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Oregon Book Award for poetry. One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing, 2008), her first book, was selected by Martha Ronk for the Colorado Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award for poetry. In 2012 she co-published the chapbook out of the flowering ribs in collaboration with visual artist Linda Hutchins. Her work has also appeared in numerous journals─including VOLT, New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Interim, Chicago Review, and others─as well as in collaborative projects with artists and writers. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and more on her work can be found at endiboguehartigan.com.
A recent James Merrill House Fellow, Rob Schlegel is the author of The Lesser Fields (Center for Literary Publishing 2009), January Machine (Four Way Books 2014), and In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps (University of Iowa Press 2019). His fourth collection, Childcare, was published in 2023 by Four Way Books. With the poets Daniel Poppick and Rawaan Alkhatib, he co-edits The Catenary Press. He currently lives in eastern Washington and teaches at Whitman College.