Airlie Press

10/15/2026

Four Books, One Night: A Reading & Celebration

Up Up Books, Portland, OR
Thursday, October 29 • 6:30 PM - 8 PM

Come celebrate Christopher Rose, Caitlin Dwyer, Lara Messersmith-Glavin, and Elissa Minor's new books at Up Up Books.

Join us for a special night of readings and celebration! Christopher Rose, Caitlin Dwyer, Lara Messersmith-Glavin, and Elissa Minor will read from their newly released books, with poet Jessica E. Johnson moderating the evening.

10/13/2026

Say hi to Airlie Press at this year's Portland Book Festival!

Portland Book Festival returns November 2nd thru 8th, 2026 for a larger downtown celebration centered around books and storytelling in collaboration with some of Portland’s most beloved cultural and culinary communities like Oregon Symphony, Food Forward, Revolution Hall, 45th Parallel Universe, Mississippi Studios, Portland Art Museum, and more.

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10/09/2026

Stonelight by Sarah McCartt-Jackson

Get your copy on our website: airliepress.org

Kentucky poet, naturalist, folklorist, and educator Sarah McCartt-Jackson has spent decades developing her craft, dedicating her art to exploring the natural and cultural world that encompasses all who share in planet life. Her poetry inspires others to connect, reflect, meditate, and act for the future of our ecosystems of all sizes: valley, prairie, forest, fern. Her poetry explores biological and cultural diversity, cultural history as embodied in tangible and intangible resources, and profound experience rooted in pleasure, sanctuary, and wilderness.

Sarah is the author of Stonelight (Airlie Press), which won the 2020 Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award, 2018 Weatherford Award in Poetry and the 2017 Airlie Prize, and three chapbooks: Calf Canyon (Brain Mill Press), Vein of Stone (Porkbelly Press), and Children Born on the Wrong Side of the River (Casey Shay Press), which won the 2015 Mary Ballard Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in About Place Journal, Indiana Review, Journal of American Folklore, The Maine Review, NANO Fiction, among many others. In recognition of artistic excellence, she received an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize four times. She was selected for inclusion in the Kentucky Great Writers Series, and has served as artist-in-residence for four National Parks: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Acadia National Park, Catoctin Mountain National Park, and Homestead National Historical Park.

10/07/2026

José Angel Araguz’s fourth full-length poetry collection takes readers through a series of poetic sequences that engage with ideas of life, love, death, and friendship. Whether holding elegiac conversations with writers known personally or known only through reading; braiding the folklore of La Llorona with the narrative of a past relationship; or exploring concepts of mortality, these poems explore the nuances and depths of life eight lines at a time.

José Angel Araguz, Ph.D. (he/him/él) is the author most recently of the lyric memoir Ruin & Want (Sundress Publications) as well as the poetry collections Rotura (Black Lawrence Press) and La esperanza espera (Valparaiso Ediciones). His poetry and prose have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, The Acentos Review, and Oxidant | Engine among other places. He is an Associate Professor at Suffolk University and a faculty-at-large member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program at Lasell University. He blogs and reviews books here at The Influence.

Learn more about José’s work at his site: https://joseangelaraguz.me/

10/06/2026

Narrative but elliptical, The Goodbye Kit is awash in lyric that thrills as it laments. Themes of transgression and longing infuse these poems about girlhood, marriage, parenthood, aging, and nature. Mapping the charged terrain of human relationship, and marked by a feral sensuality, they explore ecologies of intimacy made tangible through both experience and witness. Their impulse is to capture and project beauty and loss, offering a view of our mutable and tender selves through “wolf-colored glasses,” revealing us as the beautiful, culpable animals we are.

Daneen Bergland grew up in the Midwest but found her way home to the Pacific Northwest. She’s been a recipient of a poetry fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, and her writing has appeared in several journals and books, including Propeller Magazine, The Cincinnati Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, and Alive at the Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest. She teaches at Portland State University.

Get your copy on our website at airliepres.org

09/30/2026

Dear friends of Airlie,

We are writing with an urgent ask for the survival of Airlie Press. In the context of rising costs and decreasing arts funding, we are facing a significant budget deficit to continue operating. To say it plainly: Airlie Press is at imminent risk of closing, and will not continue to exist without your support.

For us to continue as a non-profit publisher of exciting Pacific Northwest poetry, we need to fundraise $9,000 by the end of October, and reach a total of $14,000 by the end of December. This fundraising will mean we can finish out our year, including the printing costs for our fall titles, but also to continue operating into the next year as we work to restructure the press to be more financially sustainable. It will also help us follow through on our commitment to equity and accessibility through our stipends for BIPOC poets and poets with financial need.

The funds we are asking for will also allow us to keep our annual open reading period for Poet-Editors free, and allow us to keep in publication the poetry collections of our many wonderful former Poet-Editors. Our past and present Poet-Editors include a Washington State Book Award finalist, a Best of the Net winner, two Oregon Book Award finalists, four Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients and a Colorado Prize for Poetry recipient, just to name a few.

Airlie Press is dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry by Pacific Northwest writers. We need your help to carry on this timelessly important mission, and appreciate any amount you are able to give to Airlie’s continued existence. If you can’t personally give, you can help us by spreading the word and forwarding our ask to those in your life who care about literature.

You can donate on our website: https://www.airliepress.org/donate
Or you can mail a check to:

Airlie Press
P.O. Box 13325
Portland OR 97213

Airlie Press is a 501(c)3 non-profit. All donations are tax-deductible.

09/30/2026

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09/27/2026

09/24/2026

Afropunk Blues is a tribute to the Seattle of yesteryear, exploring the unexamined intersections of the Black and Filipino diasporas in the Pacific Northwest. In this debut, Christopher Rose meditates on race, music, and grief, interrogating the space between adolescence and adulthood to find meaning in love and acceptance.

Pre-orders are open now: https://www.airliepress.org/christopher-rose-afropunk-blues

09/20/2026

“Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.” - Malcolm X