Endi Bogue Hartigan’s third poetry book titled oh orchid o’clock, now available from Omnidawn Publishing (spring 2023), explores clock measure, temporal presence in today’s realities, and the impacts of our obsessions with time and instrumentation. Read more about oh orchid o’clock and order it here.

Endi Bogue Hartigan’s third poetry book oh orchid o’clock, now available from Omnidawn Publishing (April 2023), 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 featuring a series of poems and photographs. Her most recent full-length 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 Stafford/Hall 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 Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications including West Branch, Interim, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, Chicago Review, Verse, VOLT, Pleiades, Bennington Review, Old Pal, Free Verse, Tinfish, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Burnside Review, LVNG, New Orleans Review, Yew, February, and others. Interviews on her writing have appeared in Jacket 2, The Conversant, and Small Press Review. 

Endi has collaborated with artists and writers, and has read, taught, and presented at numerous venues. In 2020, she assisted translator Flávia Rocha with the English translation from the Portuguese of the children's book The Invisible (Tapioca Stories), by Brazilian author Alcides Villaça and illustrator Andrés Sandoval. In 2016, she was awarded an artist residency at Playa Summer Lake, a residency for artists, writers, naturalists, and scientists. In 2012 she co-published the chapbook out of the flowering ribs in collaboration with visual artist Linda Hutchins, which includes a long poem and drawings stemming from their joint process-based exhibit, silver and rust. She is a former member of 13 Hats, a group of visual artists and writers who collaborated on numerous projects appearing in exhibits, publications, and readings in 2012-13. For several years she also helped organize the Spare Room poetry reading series as a member of a collective. She and Patrick Hartigan co-founded and edited Spectaculum from 2003-2005, a journal publishing long poems, series, and work best presented at length. Endi has lived most of her life in the Pacific Northwest and as a child in Hawaii. She is a graduate of Reed College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She and her husband Patrick live in Portland, Oregon, and they are parents of Jackson. In addition to her creative work, she has worked for years in public policy communications for higher education.