• Presses, Purveyors & Reading Series

    Some very cool presses and journals, literary orgs, and places to hear poetry.
    • Airlie Press
      A nonprofit publishing collective run by writers, dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry and to promoting poets from the Pacific Northwest.
    • Bay Area Correspondence School
      A network of artists and writers creating art in collaboration through the exchange of ideas and language via digital and print correspondence. BACS offers a place to create anew out of old odds and ends, to make the world less lonely and more beautiful.
    • Kelsey Street Press
      Founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small press and mainstream publishers. The Press fosters a poetics of allowance that encourages women to write directly from their own creative imperatives.
    • Independent Publishing Resource Center
      This PDX-based org provides affordable access to space, tools, and resources for creating independently published media and artwork, to build community and identity through the creation of written and visual art.
    • Omnidawn Publishing
      Founded to create books closely aligned with each author's vision, and to provide an interactive and rewarding publishing experience for poets and writers. Omnidawn has published poetry since 2001, adding Fabulist and New Fabulist Fiction in 2006.
    • Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
      Mother Foucault’s is an eclectic PDX bookstore specializing in used, rare, and vintage books + hosts reading events Thursday-Saturday, with rare exceptions for acoustic music and other weekdays.
    • the operating system
      The OS "makes 'books' as a radical act of canon correction....the most groundbreaking, unorthodox, visionary work produced in any era is all too often in danger of being lost, and we are committed to carving out space for those voices."
    • Passages Bookshop
      A PDX shop and gallery featuring fine, rare & unusual books & graphic art + cool events!
    • The Poetry Center
      Founded in 1954, the Poetry Center is one of the most long-lived and nationally renowned literary arts institutions in the U.S. Their pioneering poetry reading series has featured some of the earliest documentation of the poets on the San Francisco scene.
    • punctum books
      punctum is an open-access independent, scholar-led publisher based in Santa Barbara, CA. The press seeks to bring scholarly works, often with a transdisciplinary or unconventional nature, to a broader public.
    • Small Press Traffic
      Based in San Francisco, SPT brings together readers, writers, and presses thru their publications, conferences, talks, and reading series. Promotes and supports writers from all over the globe who push the limits of how we speak and think about the world.