Join Linda Murphy Marshall for a meet-and-greet and book signing in celebration of her two memoirs, Immersion: A Linguist's Memoir and Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery! Deeply interested in translation, cultural exchange, and how those practices can alter our vantage points on our upbringings, Marshall's books offer us...
The winter edition of Charm City Spec is here, at Bird in Hand on the evening of March 22! For this episode of Baltimore's longstanding speculative fiction reading series, you'll hear from Brigitte Winter, Catherine Castellani, Allison Pottern-- all contributors to the anthology New Year, New You-- as...
Bird in Hand hosts their very first Yarn and Yap, a series for learning new yarn-based crafts, and for meeting new yarn enthusiasts! For each event, there will be a new pattern to try out, and staff will be available to help you or provide moral support! This...
Presenting a Friday evening book signing with Jamia Wilson, in celebration of her most recent book, MAKE GOOD TROUBLE! MAKE GOOD TROUBLE is inspired by civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis’s call to challenge injustice. This engaging and informative handbook features more than 70 narratives of global...
Join Jessica Correnti, Author, Certified Child Life Specialist, and owner of Kids Grief Support for a book reading and activity time. Jessica will read her new release, The ABCs of Grief: Emotions & Feelings and lead children through a fun, expressive art activity creating tissue paper hearts to...
For its first patio event of 2025, The Ivy is excited to host Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater, congressional correspondents for The New York Times, to celebrate their new book Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and...
You're invited to the March edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible. March's event features Dr. Martha S. Jones, and her new book THE COLOR OF TROUBLE:...
Baltimore’s award-winning annual festival of all things literary takes place each spring, and The Ivy is delighted to serve as the festival bookseller. The CityLit Festival, a day-long celebration of literature, brings a literary feast to the region with 20 sessions offering panels, readings, informational sessions, and craft intensives...
You have never read a novel quite like THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY. We're so excited to introduce it you by way of this event with its author, Samuel Ashworth, in conversation with Cutter Wood! In this daring, uproarious novel, legendary chef August Sweeney has served...
How much of the author’s “I” finds its way into writing? Is the novelist omniscient, or is she inevitably writing herself into the story? How does the “I” of the memoirist craft herself as a developed character? How much is poetry a self-reflection in time and place? Writers...
Monica Wiedel-Lubinski and Karen Madigan from the Association for Nature-Based Education lead a morning play time for the whole family in the Ivy's gardens! Come take a nature walk and make some fairy and gnome homes, and if you're a grown-up, you can browse copies of Wiedel-Lubinski and...
Sunday April 13, 2025 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore)-- moving to the patio at 5928 Falls Rd. for the spring season-- with poets Brandel France de Bravo & Christian Teresi! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem...
