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

Reading is a creative act: an insistence on meaning-making and a refusal to be pacified. Books magnify this creativity. They are physical instruments in a chorus of intelligence at once ancient and avant garde.

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

Joe

  • 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

  • Definitely the best curated bookshop in Colorado.

    S. J.

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.