Spare Room and Passages Bookshop present a reading and book launch featuring
Consuelo Wise
Dao Strom
Endi Bogue Hartigan
Saturday, June 10
7:30 pm
Passages Bookshop
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
503-388-7665
Doors open at 7:00 pm; no late entry
Free admission
Copies of Endi Bogue Hartigan’s oh orchid o’clock will be available for purchase.
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Consuelo Wise is a Guatemalan-American poet, writer, and instructor. She grew up in Northern California near the Mattole, Eel River, and Sinkyone. She is currently teaching in the graduate and undergraduate programs at Portland State. Her first book, b o y, is forthcoming from Omnidawn Publishing in 2024.
Dao Strom is an artist who works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of several hybrid works, including the poetry-art collection, Instrument, and its musical companion, Traveler’s Ode; a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Her work also includes music/poetry performance, installation, and two collaborative art projects, She Who Has No Master(s) and de-canon. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Strom was born in Vietnam and lives in Portland, Oregon. daostrom.com / IG: @herandthesea
Endi Bogue Hartigan will be reading from her new book oh orchid o’clock (Omnidawn Publishing), which explores clock measure, temporal presence in today’s realities, and impacts of our obsessions with time and instrumentation. She is author of the seaweed sd treble clef (Oxyeye Press), a chapbook of poems and photographs; the poetry book Pool [5 choruses] (Omnidawn); the collaborative chapbook out of the flowering ribs (Linda Hutchins and EBH); and One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing). Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and in collaborative projects. She lives in Portland, and more on her work is at endiboguehartigan.com.