Perelandra is a nonprofit-partnered bookshop in Fort Collins’ River District. We believe that holding space for literature is an essential part of creating & sustaining community.

Welcome—

In this age of disembodiment & automation, reading is a creative act: an insistence on meaning-making & a refusal to be pacified. Books magnify this creativity. They are physical instruments in a chorus of intelligence at once ancient & avant garde.

Perelandra exists to keep the reading-animal wide awake & wild. We love work that resists easy classification. Our collections of poetry, art books & scholarship are particularly deep, but we are no less devoted to narrative, nature, politics & myth.

In addition to housing literature, Perelandra hosts the Reader in Residence, the first artist residency dedicated to reading itself. And for the far-flung—or simply fervent—there’s the Wild Carrot Society, a seasonal crop of literary magic.

Thanks for being here—

Joe Deany-Braun, Curator

  • I cannot say enough about the good energy of this space, or of the spirited folk behind it.

    —Bonnie Nadzam, author of Love in the Anthropocene

  • Filled with discovery and invitation. Strangely and deeply life-affirming.

    —Seth Braverman

  • Such a welcome relief from the noise and digital distraction of everyday life.

    —William Ames

  • Perelandra is the best bookstore in Fort Collins and probably the known universe.

    —Will Pass, author of The Second-Smartest Dog That Ever Lived

  • I've never seen such an amazing selection of poetry in any bookshop ever.

    —Joanna Doxey, author of Plainspeak, WY

  • An oasis for wandering thoughts and weary spirits.

    —Alex Woodcheck

  • You don’t have to go in looking for anything in particular, the book will find you.

    —Eri Matsumura

  • Come here if you want to discover something new that will change the way you read.

    —Chase Cate

  • We are lucky to have Perelandra in our community.

    —Ian McWilliams

MISSION

To recognize the essential fluidity and kinship of literary genre.
To model & mobilize literary heterogeneity.
To steward embodied connections with literary spaces.

VISION

A resilient & participatory wilderness of literature.