Poetry reading with Shadab Zeest Hashmi and Endi Bogue Hartigan as part of the First Friday series at San Diego Writers, Ink, San Diego, CA

Shadab Zeest Hashmi, a poet and essayist, is the winner of the San Diego Book Award, Sable’s Hybrid Book Prize, and the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize. Her books include Baker of Tarifa, Kohl and Chalk, Ghazal Cosmopolitan and the lyric memoir Comb. Zeest Hashmi’s poems have been translated into Spanish, Bosnian, Urdu and Turkish, and her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Mudlark, The Cortland Review, Poetry International, Vallum, POEM, World Literature Today, Verse Daily, Thrush, Wasafiri, McSweeney's In the Shape of a Human Body I am Visiting the Earth and The Best Asian Poetry 2021 among other publications worldwide. She is originally from Pakistan. 

Endi Bogue Hartigan’s latest book of poetry oh orchid o’clock, just released in spring 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. She is author of two other full-length books of poetry—Pool [5 choruses] (Omnidawn, 2014) which was selected for the Omnidawn Open Prize and One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing, 2008) which won the Colorado Prize for Poetry—as well as the chapbooks the seaweed sd treble clef (Oxeye, 2021) and out of the flowering ribs (2012). Her work has also appeared in numerous journals and in collaborations with artists and writers in the Pacific Northwest.