Dante in the Dark • Portland Book Festival: Cover to Cover
Tue, Nov 04
|Trinity Cathedral
Experience Dante’s haunting vision of the tenebrous depths of hell, read by a cast of actors, poets, and scholars and underscored by live improvisation on Trinity’s magnificent pipe organ.


Time & Location
Nov 04, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Trinity Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave, Portland, OR 97209, USA
About the Event
A live reading of selections of Dante’s Inferno in the soaring, candlelit Gothic Revival sanctuary of Trinity Cathedral.
Experience Dante’s haunting vision of the tenebrous depths of hell, read by a cast of actors, poets, and scholars and underscored by live music on Trinity’s magnificent pipe organ.
Presented by the Center for Sacred Learning in collaboration with the Portland Book Festival.
Readers: Vijendran Satharaj, Aiyana Cunningham, Pancho Savery, Paige Thomas, Jeremiah Davis, Rocco Weyer, and Joanna Goff. Organist: Erik Simmons.






