Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe
Innisfree was one of three poetry bookshops in the entire United States! Local and independent, our bookstore was a hub for Colorado's creative community.
Currently a virtual, temporal and spiritual space. The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe in Boulder, Colorado on University Hill, was founded in 2010. As one of three exclusively-poetry bookstores in the United States, Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe creates and fosters a daily, living space for lovers of poetry, of all ages. Kate and Brian, the owners, met in graduate school in poet Lloyd Schwa
09/25/2024
Tim Hernandez, a poetic pillar of Innisfree back in the day, will join me for a conversation at The Trident on October 16. Please come join. Brian
09/25/2024
Hello Friends,
I have signed on as the Book Events Manager at Trident Bookstore & Cafe on Pearl Street in Boulder, CO.
I am currently working on the Fall '24 and Winter '25 calendar.
Please keep the Trident in mind with all things Book and with your own works and those in your circles. And then reach out!
[email protected]
I hope to see you and hear from you.
Warmly,
Brian
08/12/2022
Good Actors
by Sommer Browning
Published by: Birds, LLC.
Now available: birdsllc.com
(Cover Drawing: "Man Drawing" by Liliana Porter)
(Cover Design by Hollis Duncan)
07/26/2022
Dear Friends of Innisfree,
For the last two weeks, we have all been saddened by the news of Noah Eli Gordon's passing. It is difficult for Kate and I and our family to describe how much help and support Noah gave us when we were starting Innisfree in the summer of 2010. He sent us titles and presses we should consider, he arranged for us to sell books at CU Readings, he spread the word, he was there our first day we opened on December 10, 2010.
The first CU reading was for J.Michael Martinez and Michele Battiste in October, 2010. Noah led everyone over to our unfinished, sawdusty space after the reading.
His own readings at Innisfree were full of his strong cadences, word force and his true belief in what he crafted. He released several books at Innisfree and was always kind and magnanimous. Noah sent many people our way.
Personally, I always loved seeing Noah. With his years spent in Boston in his band and writing poetry, I was amazed by his journey and dedication. From Bunker Hill Community College to UMass to Boulder....Noah was pure poetic emergence and more.
Today we remember all of Noah's gifts, poetic and human and his. We will be forever grateful to Noah and will keep his words memory in our hearts in the days and years ahead.
Brian
11/23/2021
11/12/2021
He was wrong. I could take the ark.
I could even take his marvelously fu**ed fingers.
The way they almost glittered.
It was the animals — the animals I could not take —
they came up the walkway into my house,
cracked the doorframe with their hooves and hips,
marched past me, into my kitchen, into my brother,
tails snaking across my feet before disappearing
like retracting vacuum cords into the hollows
of my brother’s clavicles, tusks scraping the walls,
reaching out for him — wildebeests, pigs,
the oryxes with their black matching horns,
javelinas, jaguars, pumas, raptors. The ocelots
with their mathematical faces. So many kinds of goat.
So many kinds of creature.
I wanted to follow them, to get to the bottom of it,
but my brother stopped me —
This is serious, he said.
You have to understand.
It can save you.
—Excerpted from "It Was the Animals" by Natalie Diaz
🧡
11/09/2021
the leaves have done their annual shimmy.
now the streetlight with no soft green curtain
cuts a silver blade across my bed
& my body. i didn’t want to start with leaves
even though I love how the trees turn the color of aunts
& should-train-line to ground each October. no one
wants to hear a poem about fall; much prefer the fallen
body, something easy to mourn, body cut out of the light
body lit up with bullets. see how easy it is to bring up bullets?
is it possible to ban guns? even from this poem?
i lie in the light, body split by light, room too bright for sleep
thinking of the leaf-colored bodies, their weekly fall
— ~ from "fall poem" 🖤
✨✨Join us for a night not of fallen bodies, but exuberance and lifting each other up. Link in bio.✨✨
🎶 Shadows on Shadows, Organized by 🔮 Hosted by / 🍂 Archived by Innisfree Poetry & .aporia 🌲
11/08/2021
November Garden: An Elegy 🌬🍂
The zinnias—cut-and-come-again—
are dry as Mother's hair. They crush
beneath my hand. The lilies, though,
are further gone than that, sunk down
into their bulbs, as Mother has
gone underground. Each spring they burst
into their almost human flesh—
white blooms like all they've ever made.
But not the same. A different bud
dyed with the same returning color.
The marigolds, though, cannot withdraw.
They're hybrids. They don't seed. Next year
they won't be back. And so they flower,
the withered blooms beside the red
ones that seem garish now, and cheap.
I pick the browns off. The reds
bloom grimly through a dozen frosts
to the first hard freeze. They cannot stop.
⛰ We've crossed the threshold of Daylight Savings Time. As we withdraw this season, how will you keep your spirit warm? ❤️
Poem by Andrew Huggins.
11/07/2021
Can anyone guess how old Eliot was when he wrote these lines? 🤔 And who misses sharing their morning Conscious Coffees with us? 🥺
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
— T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
11/06/2021
November Garden: An Elegy by Andrew Hudgins
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=35988
11/05/2021
Welcome the winter months with a community gathering at Trident in Boulder. 🌚 ❄️ 🌝
$10 presale / $15 at the door / Donation option available for those who cannot afford a full price ticket. All proceeds from this event go toward the production of more events highlighting culture, music and poetry in the Boulder area.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shadows-on-shadows-poetry-music-dance-trident-booksellers-cafe-tickets-198742021737
11/03/2021
Join us for a night of poetry, dance, LIVE music, and pure magic on November 19 from 10pm-1:30am.
🎶 Shadows on Shadows ✨ Organized by Musa Starseed and The Starseed Society 🔮 Hosted by Trident Booksellers & Cafe 🍂 Archived by Innisfree Poetry & collective.aporia 🌲
$10 presale tickets / $15 at the door 🚪A DONATION OPTION is available for those who cannot afford a ticket. 🎟 All proceeds from this event go toward creating more Boulder area events that highlight culture, poetry, music and dance. 💜
Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shadows-on-shadows-poetry-music-dance-trident-booksellers-cafe-tickets-198742021737
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Our Story
The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe in Boulder, Colorado on University Hill, was founded in 2010. As one of three exclusively-poetry bookstores in the United States, Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe creates and fosters a daily, living space for lovers of poetry, of all ages. Kate and Brian, the owners, met in graduate school in poet Lloyd Schwartz’ s Poetry Workshop and have carried their love of poetry with them into this space. They hope that the store allows poets and lovers of poetry to gather formally and informally in order to promote the discovery that writing and reading poetry brings forth. The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe has poetry books for readers of all ages. The store also proudly carries Conscious Coffees, the award winning Boulder-based coffee roaster dedicated to the pursuit of Fair Trade and Organic coffee all over the world. For seven years the baristas and book curators at Innisfree have worked hard to meet the challenges of keeping an independent, locally-owned bookstore and café open year after year. Every Tuesday at 7PM Innisfree hosts its Weekly Open Poetry Reading. Thank you to all have walked with us.
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