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Field Notes
Claire Gordon reads her poem “Field Notes” published in Portal 2024.
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Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead
Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead selects poems from Catherine Graham’s works published over the last 20 years--Pupa (2003), The Red Element (2008), Winterkill (2010), Her Red Hair Rises with The Wings of Insects (2013), and The Celery Forest (2017)—and places them chronologically after new poems that open the collection for a total of six sections in the book
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The Devil Every Day
John Nyman’s A Devil Every Day is a holy trinity—verse, rhythm, and form—compiled into a diabolical 3-part collection of poetry that examines classical Christianity through a modern lens: Becoming, Becoming Evil, and Praise God. Topics range from houseplants to dreams, government to whiteness, divinity to hellish incantations.
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Portfolio – Délani Valin
Portal's reading series is back for fall 2023! Join us in the attic where keynote speaker Délani Valin will read from her debut poetry collection, Shapeshifters.
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Portfolio – Tawahum Bige
Join us in the attic for our 2023 Portfolio Series—our next event features Two Spirit author Tawahum Bige, who will be reading poetry from their debut collection, Cut to Fortress.
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Like a Noose
Chris (Seabacola) Beaton reads his poem “Like a Noose” published in Portal 2022.
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WALKING ON THE BEACHES OF TEMPORAL CANDY
Walking on The Beaches of Temporal Candy is a collection of poetry split into two sections: the first being “Poems Written Travelling Around the Sun” and “Poems Written On The Walk To Work.” Both sections make use of fantastical imagery and gritty language to examine the notion of time, particularly when it passes slowly at jobs for which the employee lacks passion or during moments of anxiety over quotidian life when the strain and anger builds to a crescendo.
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TREETALK
TreeTalk creates a second canopy for the boulevard elm, re-foliated with poetic paper leaves and tied with string instead of caterpillar silk.
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THE LOST LETTERS
Emotionally charged, witty, and surprising- Catherine Greenwood’s second published collection of poetry, The Lost Letters, allows the reader to appreciate the long-ago love story of Heloise and Abelard with a modern twist. Greenwood explores forbidden, separated love. Heloise and Abelard were driven apart after they were discovered having an uncsanctioned relationship in the 12th century.
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MOWING
An apple tree grown from seed can take up to 10 years to bear fruit and Marlene Cookshaw’s fifth book of poetry, Mowing, has likewise germinated for over a decade. Now she is harvesting the fruits of her literary labour and it is sweet.
