Poetry Reading, Williamsburg, MA: Shanta Lee, Rachel Hinkel-Wang, Endi Bogue Hartigan

Shanta Lee’s latest illustrated poetry collection, Black Metamorphoses (Etruscan Press, 2023) is a work that Lee describes as a 2,000+ year-old phone line opened to Ovid, as well as an interrogation of the Greek mythos, while creating her own new language in this work.  Lee is also author of GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues (Diode Editions, 2021). Lee is also a multidisciplinary artist who works in photography and other mediums. More about her work is at http://shantalee.com/

Rachel Hinkel-Wang has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has won awards for her fiction and poetry and has published stories with McSweeney’s and Burrow Press. She lives in Ashfield, MA with her husband, two kids, and nine ducks.

Endi Bogue Hartigan's latest book oh orchid o’clock (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023) explores clock measure, temporal presence in today’s realities, and sensory impacts of our obsession with time. She is author of two other full-length books of poetry—Pool [5 choruses] (Omnidawn, 2014) and One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing, 2018)—as well as two chapbooks, work in journals, and collaborative creative work with artists and writers in the Pacific Northwest. She lives in Portland, Oregon. More about her work is at endiboguehartigan.com.