Passages Bookshop

04/13/2026

The shop will be closed for the next three weeks, while we head first to New Orleans for the poetry festival (reading with friends from Mexico City on Saturday 4/18), then through Louisiana and Texas for sales calls at half a dozen institutions.

We will reopen on Tuesday, May 5, and will have a Spare Room reading on Thursday the 7th, with Elizabeth Robinson, Valerie Witte, and Jami Macarty. We hope to see you there or here!

New Orleans Poetry FestivalApril 16-19, 2026 The festival is free and open to the public. Registration is not required to attend. Complete Schedule of EventsThis is a list of all events with participants, times, and venues, in chronological order.NOPF 2026: Programming CubesThis is a public Google...

03/03/2026

Passages Bookshop is pleased to be among the exhibitors at this weekend's inaugural PNCA book fair!

PORTLAND SMALL PRESS & ART BOOK FAIR

Pacific Northwest College of Art
511 NW Broadway
Portland, OR 97209

Thursday 3/5, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Friday 3/6, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Saturday 3/7, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

For more information and programming details, please visit PNCA's Events Calendar (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-small-press-art-book-fair-at-pnca-tickets-1962676154211)

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Portland’s Small Press & Art Book Fair is a print-forward celebration of independent publishing, highlighting risograph books, photo zines, small edition art books, and experimental printed matter. The curated fair will center Portland-based small presses, independent artists, and PNCA's student and faculty-led publishing projects, creating an accessible and inclusive space to foster connections amongst Portland’s vibrant print and independent publishing community.

The event will host more than forty exhibitors, alongside public programming including artist talks, panels, and workshops, all free of charge and open to the public.

The fair’s goal is to give artists and small presses a venue to share and sell their work while spotlighting art books and small presses — art forms often overlooked between zines and traditional publishing. With few large-scale events dedicated to art books and independent publishing in Portland, the fair will foreground risograph and small-batch print publications, while fostering connections among students, artists, professionals, and the public.

Presented by PNCA’s Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, this project fosters collaboration between PNCA and Portland’s art book and small press community. Participating exhibitors include Passages Bookshop, Secret Room Press, Container Corps, Color Fantasy Press, Seltzer Press, Justseeds, Hope Amico, pocket press, Berm, NightedLife, CowpokePress, Mara Gervais, Nate Orton, Fishpond Press, IPRC, Whatnow Press, Hi Books, LURCH Magazine, Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Outlet, alongside PNCA’s own faculty, staff, and students working in print and book arts.

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Free Public Programming & Special Events:

Thursday 3/5, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Small Press & Art Book Fair
First Thursday Art Walk & PSPABF Opening Reception at PNCA

Friday 3/6, 6:00 pm
Dorothy Lemelson Keynote Lecture by Martha Naranjo Sandoval

Saturday 3/7, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Workshop with Martha Naranjo Sandoval
Panel with Secret Room Press
Community Gathering & PSPABF Closing Reception

02/17/2026

This Friday evening, as part of the Encore screening of the South Sound Experimental Film Festival, Passages Bookshop will present a selection of books focusing on film, video, moving image arts, and kindred artist's books for perusal and purchase.

The program will begin with a screening of Athanor (Philippe Garrel, 1972), featuring Nico, with a live soundtrack by Ceremonial Abyss, followed by nearly a dozen shorts by NW makers.

More information, including a full program, at the festival page on the theater website:
https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/south-sound-experimental-film-festival-encore-edition-2/

02/14/2026

Passages Bookshop is very excited to present an evening-length solo performance by Matt Kline of a composition by Eva-Maria Houben, in our ongoing Works on Paper series.

Friday, February 27

Performance at 7:30; doors open at 7:00, no late entry.
$10 suggested donation; no one turned away

02/03/2026

SAVE THE DATE!

On Friday, February 27, at 7:30 pm, Passages Bookshop will present Matt Kline in concert.

Matt will perform "the double bass," an evening-length work for solo double-bass by contemporary German composer Eva-Marie Houben.

Additional details to follow. We hope to see you there!

02/03/2026

Passages Bookshop will be closed for the next two weeks, while we travel to the Bay Area for the Codex Book Art Fair.

We will reopen on Tuesday, February 17 with our normal hours of Tues-Sat 12:00-6:00 pm.

02/03/2026

Ian van Coller and Passages Bookshop will be exhibiting at the Tenth Codex Book Art Fair in Oakland this coming weekend, Saturday 2/7 through Tuesday 2/10. We will be at table W21, against the back wall.

We will be showing recent (and a few older) books by Ian and collaborators, including

Monument Baobab
(https://www.ianvancoller.com/monument-baobab)

Svalbard
(https://www.ianvancoller.com/svalbard-20192023)

The Oldest Ice on Earth (with Todd Anderson)
(https://www.ianvancoller.com/the-oldest-ice-on-earth-20192023)

Please come by to see us if you make it to the fair!

CODEX X Saturday, February 7 – Tuesday, February 10, 2026 Oakland Marriott City Center1001 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607 The International Biennial CODEX Book Art Fair & Symposium focuses on serving practitioners, scholars, […]

12/06/2025

Next weekend, at Landdd (714 NW Glisan):
the fourth iteration of this local book fair, featuring

• Passages Bookshop
• The Idea of the Book
• Monograph Bookwerks
• Container Corps
• Hi Books
• Volumes Design Library
• Gnomic Book

and more.

Saturday & Sunday, 12/13-14
11:00 am - 4:00 pm

We'll be featuring an exciting batch of classic artist's books from the 1970s-80s, as well as our usual mix of uncommon and uncompromising art & literature.

Stop by if you can!

11/28/2025

PASSAGES BOOKSHOP IS CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAY

We will reopen on Tuesday, December 2, with our regular hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12:00-6:00 pm.

We hope to see you soon!

(Unfinished collage by Julia Peattie, 2019)

10/16/2025

Passages is closed while I am on the road, making my annual fall sales trip through the West. The shop will reopen on Nov. 17.

If you are in or near Denver during the next week or two, you can catch the city's Biennial of the Americas. As part of the Reading Room in the festival, organized by Rick Griffith of MATTER, I'll be reading with friends Maureen Owen, Jenny Dorn, and Michael Klausman this coming Monday. We'd love to see you there.

10/10/2025

In addition to the events on both Saturday and Sunday evenings, this is the first of two weekends of Portland Open Studios. Painter Scott Conary on the 5th floor is participating, and several other artists and businesses will be open with special offerings — see the list attached.

Passages will only be open the first weekend, October 11-12. On Monday the 13th, we'll close for about a month while I hit the road to hawk artist's books all around the West.