Portal is an art and poetry book collaboration between the award-winning poet Tiphanie Yanique and award-winning photographer Stephanie Hanlon. The book was created in commemoration of the Virgin Island’s 175th year of Emancipation from slavery. Methodologically, the poems do the myth making of presenting narrative written from ancestors and to ancestors using the poetic forms of the found poem, the golden shovel and the map. Methodologically, the photographs do the magic of compressing time and flattening space using techniques with slow and fast exposures. In this way the poems and photographs together serve as a compressed voyage of Virgin Islands’ legacy—a portal between descendants and their ancestors. Together the poetry and photography offer an emotionally stirring experience that is at once intellectually profound and aesthetically quite beautiful. Released on July 3rd, the day of VI Emancipation, as part of the Clear de Road art exhibit in Frederiksted, St. Croix, Portal is available in bound book form in a limited edition of 175 copies.