Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a reading by Joel Felix, Matt Trease, and Endi Bogue Hartigan.
Doors open at 7:00 pm; no late entry
Free admission
Passages Bookshop
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660, Portland, OR 97209
503-388-7665
Joel Felix awoke in the shadow of Ford Motor's River Rouge plant, birthplace of automation. His most recent publication is Holograms of Dawn (selva oscura press). He is currently being raised by children in Lake City, Seattle.
Matt Trease is a poet, artist, teacher, and astrologer. He serves on the board and teaches poetics through the Cascadia Poetics Lab, co-curates the Margin Shift reading series, serves as the poetry editor for the Celestial Arts Education Library Institute (CAELi) Review, and is the founder of InTransit, an astrology,poetry and spiritual ecology consulting and research company. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He is the author of The Outside (Carbonation Press, 2025) and the chapbooks Later Heaven (busylittle1way designs, 2013) and rcvrdtxt (rlysrslit, 2017). He lives in the Duwamish-Green River Watershed in the Salish Sea region of Cascadia on the land of the Duwamish people (Kent, WA) with his partner Xan (and her mom Catherine), his son Harvey, and their dogs, Hoopla, Azra, and Bernie. Connect with him at bio.site/mjtrease.
Endi Bogue Hartigan is a Portland poet, and will be reading new work that draws from information on the nature of light, physics, and astronomy. Her recent book of poetry oh orchid o’clock (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023) investigates clock measure, temporal presence in our violent realities, and obsessions with time and instrumentation. Her previous books include Pool [5 choruses] (Omnidawn, 2014), selected for the Omnidawn Open Prize and One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing, 2018), selected for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She is also author of the chapbooks the seaweed sd treble clef (Oxeye Press, 2021) and silver and rust (collaboration with Linda Hutchins, 2011), as well as work in journals and collaborations.
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