Join us at Bird in Hand for an evening of powerful poetry as Moira Egan and Allison Wilkins Bakken share work from their latest collections. Allison Wilkins' manuscript House of Broken Tables won the 2025 Donna Wolf Palacio Poetry Prize, and Moira Egan's The Furies comes out on the date of this...
You're invited to a very sweet Halloween party for the whole family, at The Ivy Bookshop's location at The Shops at Kenilworth! RSVP here! Join us at noon on October 25th for: A special storytime with Tracy Gold, author of Trick or Treat, Bugs to Eat and Hide and Seek, Nuts...
You're invited to a party about the 32nd Street Farmers Market! Bird in Hand is thrilled to launch Story Seeds: Growing Home at the Farmers Market, the result of a thoughtful, years-long project by author Megan Lovely and photographer Michael Caballes. After a morning at the market, the...
Fall is sweet at The Ivy Bookshop! Join us on the back patio for books, pumpkin painting, fall activities, face painting, local art, and more! Featuring a special Fall nature craft with the Waldorf School of Baltimore. Drop by any time from 10-1 in your coziest fall outfit...
Presenting 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. For this October edition, we are thrilled to welcome Gisela Heffes in celebration of her new novel CROCODILES AT NIGHT, out...
Bird in Hand hosts local percussionist Sam Carullo for a solo concert during our fall concert series! Experience our full menu of cocktails and coffee for this happy hour concert. Doors open at 5:45, concert begins at 6:00. This concert series is free, but cash donations will be...
Announcing Boys Reading Books: a fiction book club open to men and non-binary people! Proving men read novels too and encouraging more to do so. Next Meeting: Thursday, October 30th at 7pm at The Ivy Bookshop. This month’s pick: Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino. Led by The Ivy’s own...
Join the Waldorf School of Baltimore on the covered patio for a festive and fun seasonal celebration! This program is best for children up to age 7 and will include songs, story time and a special holiday craft lead by one of Waldorf's early childhood teachers. A Lantern...
Bird in Hand is celebrating the release of Annie Marhefka's chapbook, Strangers We Know By Heart, published by Garden Party Collective in September! Annie is an incredible engine of community around writing in Baltimore via her work as the Executive Director of Yellow Arrow Publishing, and many other...
The best memoirs are not just an account of a single life, but a guide to how to live. Michael Loughran gives us this gift in Windower, a memoir of grief, an account of the years before and after losing his wife to suicide, a document of love's impossible...
Imagine Amy Winehouse never died but instead got sober. You've entered the world of Anthony Thomas Lombardi's poetry collection murmurations. This remarkable book navigates the fractured intersections between addiction and grief, class and community, where the lyrical lives in the blasphemous and our invocations summon ghosts instead of...
The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book. For the November event, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Meagan S. Allen to share her new book...