Ivy Bookshop

John Copenhaver: HALL OF MIRRORS (with Chris Chambers & Cheryl Head)
2024-06-06 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Do you love mysteries? Need a new crime fiction pic for your summer reading? Presenting an evening with acclaimed mystery writer John Copenhaver in celebration of his latest novel, Hall of Mirrors (A Judy Nightingale and Philippa Watson Mystery).
He’ll be joined by fellow mystery writers Chris Chambers and Cheryl Head. Austin Camacho, organizer of the annual Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con, will moderate the conversation.
Hall of Mirrors takes places in 1950s McCarthy-era Washington, DC, when a popular mystery novelist dies suspiciously. It follows his writing partner, who must untangle the author’s connection to a serial killer. We love books about books, and hope you’ll join us for this lively conversation!
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First Friday Comedy Night: Ft. Mike Smith, Pauline Mollie, & Rose Vineshank
2024-06-07 18:00 | Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
The new monthly comedy series continues at Bird in Hand, hosted and curated by the one & only Satarah Fisher! This month’s featured comedians: Mike Smith, Pauline Mollie, & Rose Vineshank.
Join us at 6pm to hear the featured comedians, or at 7pm for the free open mic! Tickets available here for both. Drinks (alcoholic and non) and snacks will be available at the Bird Bar.

Ivy Kids Saturday: Summer Kickoff
2024-06-08 09:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Join us on June 8th from 9-10AM to make and decorate paper popsicles… then eat a real one as a snack! Plus, stick around to try out our new lawn games (did someone say giant Jenga?!).

The Hot L Poets Series, featuring Morri Creech and Ryan Wilson
2024-06-09 16:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
THE HOT L POETS SERIES continues with poets Morri Creech and Ryan Wilson! The event will be on the Ivy’s Back Patio to enjoy the warm weather! This will be the final Hot L event before the summer break in July and August.
The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). The reading series is co-sponsored by Smartish Pace & Baltimore Poets Theatre.
Books by the featured poets will be available at the event.

Charm City Spec: Summer Edition
2024-06-14 18:30 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Come join us on the patio at The Ivy Bookshop on Friday, June 14th for the summer edition of Baltimore’s speculative fiction reading series, Charm City Spec!
Whether you’re a regular or it’s your first time, you’re sure to enjoy this incredible lineup featuring William J. Donahue, Anna Dickson James, Aquino Loayza, & Maxwell Massa!
Books and refreshments will be available at the event.

Susan Coll: REAL LIFE AND OTHER FICTIONS (with Marion Winik)
2024-06-18 18:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209
Join us to celebrate Susan Coll’s latest novel REAL LIFE AND OTHER FICTIONS, about the ways that writing guides us through life!
Back in 2022, the Ivy hosted Susan Coll for her much-beloved novel BOOKISH PEOPLE… and now we welcome her back, to celebrate REAL LIFE AND OTHER FICTIONS– another novel about the ways that writing guides us through life. In this novel, an aspiring novelist sets out to find the truth about her parents’ long-ago disappearance, and finds herself grappling with the nature of stories, myths, and who gets to write the endings.
We hope you’ll join us for what’s sure to be a thoughtful conversation with levity and comedy, featuring Marion Winik alongside Susan Coll. See you soon!
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Real Life and Other Fictions is Susan Coll’s seventh novel. Her previous books include Bookish People; The Stager, a New York Times and Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice; and Acceptance, which was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Moment Magazine, NPR.org, and Atlantic.com. She is the events advisor at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, and was the president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation for five years.
Marion Winik is the author of nine books, including The Big Book of the Dead (Counterpoint, 2019) and First Comes Love (Pantheon, 1996). Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere; her column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has been running since 2011. A professor at the University of Baltimore, she reviews books for The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and People, among others, and hosts the NPR podcast The Weekly Reader. She was a commentator on All Things Considered for fifteen years. She is the recipient of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Service Award.

Susan Kellam: BRILLIANT DISGUISE (Book Signing and Happy Hour)
2024-06-21 17:00 - 19:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
In her beautiful new memoir, BRILLIANT DISGUISE, Susan Kellam wraps her own rock-and-roll odyssey around her journey to understand family upheaval. Originally from Baltimore, Kellam’s story is rooted in the city, demonstrating the way the place served as the backdrop for difficult times and, simultaneously, as the place where her own unfolding in music and journalism began.
Stop by the Ivy between 5-7pm on Friday, June 21st to meet Susan and talk with her about the book, and have your copy signed. We’ll have a pop-up bar (with sodas) from Bird in Hand.
Click here to order a copy! Books will also be available for sale at the event.
After a childhood spent in Baltimore, Susan Kellam started her career at Rolling Stone magazine when typewriters were still being flung across offices. Eventually leaving the rock-and-roll world for straight journalism, her work has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Washingtonian magazine, Congressional Quarterly, and numerous other places. She finished her full-time career as senior communications expert on domestic policy at the Brookings Institution before moving to a saltwater farm in Maine.

Poets In The Gardens: Featuring Ag, With Jake Budenz
2024-06-22 16:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
We’re thrilled to bring back Poets in the Gardens to host former Ivy bookseller Ag in celebration of his poetry chapbook, blood physical surgical sacrifices! Join us for an afternoon of poetry and conversation surrounded by the green of the gardens, where Ag will read and discuss his poetry in conversation with beloved Baltimore-based author and artist Jake Budenz, author of Tea Leaves.
Books (and refreshments!) will be available at this event.
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Ag is a poet and librarian. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Wellesley College and a Master’s in Library Science from the University of Maryland. His work has appeared in The Madrigal, Variety Pack, Full Mood Mag and Transfag Quarterly. Born and raised in Annapolis, Maryland, he currently resides in Rhode Island, but Baltimore will always be home to him. His work is transgressive and transsexual, concerned with bodies and their functions in private and in public. When not writing he enjoys horror films and documentaries about the deep ocean. His favorite cephalopod is the magnapinna squid.
Jacob Budenz is a queer author, multi-disciplinary performer, and witch with an MFA from University of New Orleans and a BA from Johns Hopkins University whose work explores the intersection of queer otherness and the otherworldly. The author of queer magic realist short story collection Tea Leaves (Bywater Books 2023) and poetry chapbook Pastel Witcheries (Seven Kitchens Press 2018), Budenz has work in print journals including Slipstream and Assaracus; zeitgeisty online journals including Taco Bell Quarterly and Wussy Mag; and anthologies by Mason Jar Press, Unbound Edition, and more. Jake’s work has earned a Baker Innovative Projects Grant (Simaetha: a Dreambaby Cabaret, January 2020), a spot on Baltimore City Paper’s Top Ten Staged Productions of 2016 (for a new adaptation of The Master and Margarita), and praise including “fabulous, in every sense… quick and sharp, full of charms that whisk us into the darkest forests of the human condition” (Baynard Woods, Inheritance: an Autobiography of Whiteness) and “funny… queer, and… full of life” (M.M. Carrigan, editor-in-chief of Taco Bell Quarterly). You can follow Jake’s projects, including their queer psychedelic pop band on Instagram (@dreambabyjake and @mothbrothband) or www.jakebeearts.com.

'Pemi Aguda: GHOSTROOTS (with Danielle Evans)
2024-06-25 18:00 | Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Bird in Hand is thrilled to welcome ‘Pemi Aguda in celebration of her stunning debut short story collection, GHOSTROOTS!
In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before. These stories are empathetic, energetic, and full of humor and a wide-angle view of the forces that influence our individual choices.
We’re excited to share with you this chance to hear from the author herself, and lucky that Danielle Evans, author of THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS, will join us to facilitate this conversation.
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James T. Sears: QUEERING REHOBOTH BEACH (with Morna McDermott McNulty)
2024-06-27 18:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Have you spent a summer day at Rehoboth Beach, or heard of this famed beach town in southern Delaware? Were you ever… thinking about history when spending a summer day at Rehoboth Beach?
In Queering Rehoboth Beach, historian and educator James Sears charts the evolution of the beach town from 19th century Methodist Church meeting camp to mecca for the LGBTQ+ community. Join us to hear from James Sears in conversation with Towson University professor Morna McDermott McNulty – we’re looking forward to learning about this ultimate beach read together!
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First Friday Comedy Night: Michael Furr, Elizabeth Norman, & Adam Freesman
2024-07-05 17:00 - 18:00 | Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
The new monthly comedy series continues at Bird in Hand, hosted and curated by the one & only Satarah Fisher! This month’s featured comedians: Michael Furr, Elizabeth Norman, & Adam Freesman.
Join us at 6pm to hear the featured comedians, or at 7pm for the free open mic! Tickets available here for both. Drinks (alcoholic and non) and snacks will be available at the Bird Bar.

Reading for Wellness Book Club
2024-07-07 13:00 - 17:00 | MD

Evan Porter: DAD CAMP (with Matthew Norman)
2024-07-09 18:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Celebrating the poignant, hilarious summer novel DAD CAMP with Evan S. Porter in conversation with Matthew Norman! DAD CAMP follows a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to “father-daughter week” at a remote summer camp, their last chance to bond before he loses her to teenage girlhood entirely.
It’s about family, fighting toxic masculinity, and reaching for the things and people we love the most– all with plenty of good humor and summery feelings. We’re glad that Matthew Norman, author of the beloved Charm City Rocks, and many other humorous, heartwarming novels, will join Evan Porter in conversation.
We hope you can join us for this uplifting evening!
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Ivy Kids Saturday: Foodie Architects
2024-07-13 08:00 - 10:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Join us on July 13th from 8-10AM (extended hours!) to get crafty with marshmallows and toothpicks! Plus, stick around for lawn games!

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Happy Hour Book Signing with Washington Writers' Publishing House
2024-07-13 17:00 - 19:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Join Washington Writers’ Publishing House (WWPH) on the back patio at The Ivy to toast the winner of the the Biennial WWPH Translation Series, Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero! It’s a real treat that both author and translator will be present for this happy hour and book signing, so you can meet them both and ask them questions about the writing and translation process.
Come to mix and mingle with the writers – stay for the cocktail with an Uruguayan flair!
Aguas/Waters introduces the rich and vibrant imagery of Uruguayan poet Miguel Avero to the English-speaking world. Selected works from two of his early collections highlight the legacy of magical realism and rioplatense rhythms in this prolific poet’s fierce style. This first bilingual edition matches each original Spanish poem with an inspired translation by Washington D.C. poet Jona Colson. Aguas/Waters is the premier selection in the Biennial WWPH Translation Series.
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Click here to order a copy of Aguas/Waters! Books will also be available at the event.

New Date! Noa Silver: CALIFORNIA DREAMING (with Christine Grillo)
2024-07-16 18:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
You’re invited to a conversation about debut novels, young people finding meaning in their lives, questions of family and responsibility, and– engaging summer reading! Noa Silver’s new novel, CALIFORNIA DREAMING, is a coming-of-age story between the Occupy and #MeToo movements and against the backdrop of the 2016 election and California’s ever-worsening fire season. It’s a book about how we come to understand our motivations and values, and we’re lucky to welcome Noa Silver to discuss her writing process on this July evening.
Delightfully, Christine Grillo, author of the beloved HESTIA STRIKES A MATCH (“an irreverent, incisive, laugh-out-loud interrogation of modern love”), will moderate this conversation.
We hope you’ll join us!
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Yappy Hour: A Dog Social (Dogs Read Too!)
2024-07-18 17:00 - 19:00 | MD
You asked, we answered! Presenting The Ivy’s first ever Yappy Hour, an outdoor happy hour with refreshments and books for humans and pups alike!
Bring your canine buds (on leashes, please!) to our spacious gardens to socialize… and maybe even make a new human friend, while browsing tales about tails for all ages.
Thanks for your RSVP, which lets us know how to set up the bar! We can’t wait to see you there.
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Thank You, Baltimore! Garden Party
2024-07-19 17:00 - 20:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, Garden, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Thank you so much to our city! Such fun news that we were named Best of Baltimore. We’re really honored. Let’s celebrate!
Join us in the gardens for a book bundle raffle, lawn games, and (drum roll please) free treats from our neighbors at Tropicool!
The very best thing is books, and the people who love them. Thanks to all of you for being those people– can’t wait to hang out together in that spirit.
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Olympics Opening Ceremony Watch Party
2024-07-26 13:30 - 17:00 | Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
We’ll be streaming the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics at Bird in Hand! Join us for a coffee, beer (25% off 6-packs of Old Oriole Park), or a bite.
Let us know you’re coming here.

Clifford Murphy: INK: THE INDELIBLE J. MAYO WILLIAMS (with Brooks Long)
2024-07-26 18:00 - 19:30 | The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209
A concert & conversation about the most significant record producer in Blues, R&B, gospel, & jazz in the first half of the 20th century!
The Ivy Bookshop is thrilled to have you over for a night of music and conversation inspired by Clifford R. Murphy’s new biography INK: THE INDELIBLE J. MAYO WILLIAMS! On this festive Friday night, Murphy, the director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, joins with Brooks Long, host of WTMD’s “Six Degrees of Soul” to present a concert and book talk.
We’ll provide the books, the beverages, and the shady outdoor spot– you come prepared to kick back and learn about the most significant record producer in Blues, R&B, gospel, and jazz in the first half of the 20th Century.
In the 1920s, while producing records by the likes of Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson, Williams was moonlighting on weekends as one of the early Black stars of the National Football League. Though Williams’ life intersected with a swath of major figures in 20th Century life – from Paul Robeson to W.E.B. DuBois, George Halas, Nat King Cole, and John Hammond, Ink is the first biography of this major figure in American cultural production.
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CLIFFORD R. MURPHY is a musician and ethnomusicologist. He is a founding member of the rock band Say ZuZu, the director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the author of Yankee Twang: Country and Western Music in New England, and co-author (with Henry Glassie and Douglas Dowling Peach) of Ola Belle Reed & Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line. He lives in the Rodgers Forge neighborhood with his wife and four rambunctious kids.
BROOKS LONG is a singer, songwriter, and host of WTMD’s “Six Degrees of Soul.” As a musician, he has been celebrated with “Best of Baltimore” accolades, and his work as a cultural historian of Baltimore R&B has been showcased by Creative Alliance, UMBC, and others.

Merideth M. Taylor: MAKING A WAY OUT OF NO WAY: LIVES OF LABOR, LOVE, AND RESISTANCE (with Maya Davis and Angela Wilson)
2024-07-30 18:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
The Ivy is excited to welcome Dr. Merideth M. Taylor to speak about her new book Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance, a richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland.
The photographs and stories in this book grew out of the author’s quest to understand how these people, who were subjected to a system that made every attempt to brutalize and dehumanize them, were able not only to survive but to build families and meaningful lives. Her choice to largely avoid graphic depictions of the violence perpetrated on enslaved bodies allows the reader to focus, instead, on the remarkable resilience, ingenuity, skills, and cultural strengths that enabled them to make a way out of no way.
Author royalties will be donated to Historic Sotterley’s Descendant’s Project, and we’re fortunate that Angela Davis, a Descendant of Historic Sotterley Plantation, will join Dr. Taylor for this event, along with Maya Davis, Director of the Riversdale House Museum. We hope you can join us for this meaningful conversation.
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Books will also be available at the event.

First Friday Comedy Night: David Davis, Mia Musa, & Mert Wolf
2024-08-02 18:00 - 20:30 | Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
The new monthly comedy series continues at Bird in Hand, hosted and curated by the one & only Satarah Fisher! This month’s featured comedians: David Davis, Mia Musa, & Mert Wolf.
Join us at 6pm to hear the featured comedians, or at 7pm for the free open mic! Tickets available here for both. Drinks (alcoholic and non) and snacks will be available at the Bird Bar.

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Brunch Time Book Signing: Elisa Beth Haransky-Beck, ENLIVENING CONSCIOUSNESS
2024-08-04 11:00 - 13:30 | The Ivy Bookshop, Garden, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
On Sunday, August 4th, visit the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop to celebrate Enlivening Consciousness: Tips and Tools for Natural Eyesight Improvement and Ways of Moving and Eating to Preserve and Promote Wellness, the new book from Dr. Elisa Beth “ElisaBe” Haransky-Beck! This event will take place in partnership with Jewish Vegan Life. Free kosher organic whole food, plant-based brunch included for those who RSVP.
Enlivening Consciousness asks: How do we wake up to our true spiritual essence and feed our well-being? We begin by diving deep within, beginning with our eyesight and our sense of vision. Eye doctor ElisaBe takes us on a surprising multidimensional journey in which we move within to discover ourselves with ease, joy, and love in order to serve the collective more fully through divine nutrition, knowing nature, and the vibrant spirit inside each of us.
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Books will be available for sale at the event.
Dr. Elisa Beth “ElisaBe” Haransky-Beck is an optometrist and wellness practitioner, spiritual nutrition counselor, EmbodyVision somatic yoga teacher, educator, and speaker. She stepped into the healthy plant-based lifestyle in 2012. Although not currently a raw living foodist, that’s what she was for 6 months when she became vegan in 2012! For more: EnliveningConsciousness.com
Jewish Vegan Life is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization committed to catalyzing a global food revolution. Our mission is to inspire people to connect the worlds of Jewish tradition and plant-based living, empowering them to embrace this synergy and live their best Jewish vegan life. Our vision is both bold and clear: A vegan world enriched by the synergy of plant-based living and Jewish wisdom, leading to a kinder, healthier, and more environmentally conscious planet. More details can be found at jewishveganlife.org.

Mark Hendricks: THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS (with Sam Bermas-Dawes)
2024-08-08 18:00 - 19:30 | The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209
Presenting an evening with Mark Hendricks, environmental photographer and author of the recently-published The Central Appalachians : Mountains of the Chesapeake— a beautiful book of photograph-laden, episodic essays that outline the ecological stories and preservation needs of the Central Appalachians. We’ll hear from Mark about the making of the book, and he’ll be joined in conversation by Sam Bermas-Dawes, producer for Midday on WYPR.
Join us for an evening of regional ecology and engaging conversation!
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Click here to order The Central Appalachians.
Mark Hendricks is an award winning photographer, writer, and author working on environmental issues. A former marine mammal trainer, aquarist, and animal rescuer, he turned to using his camera as a storytelling tool for conservation awareness. His first book, Natural Wonders of Assateague Island (Schiffer Publishing), was a 2018 Foreword Reviews award winner. His images and articles have been featured in National Geographic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Living Bird, Audubon, and many others. Mark is a faculty member at Towson University where he serves as a lecturer in the Department of Psychology, an adjunct in the Department of Biological Sciences, and is co-director of the Animal Behavior Program. He is a fellow in the International League of Conservation Writers and member of the ethics committee for the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA).
Sam Bermas-Dawes is a producer for Midday. He previously produced for WYPR’s On The Record. He began working in public radio in Georgia, before working on The Middle with Jeremy Hobson through the 2022 midterm election. Sam grew up in Montclair, NJ and went to school in Washington, D.C. When he is not working, Sam is likely to be on a soccer field or reading in his hammock.

Ivy Kids Saturday: Art Machines
2024-08-10 09:00 - 10:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
We’re so excited to partner with Baltimore-based STEAM toy designers at FutureMakers for our August IvyKids Event! In this playful engineering drop-in you and your child can create your own Art Machines – playful kinetic cardboard contraptions that move using simple and compound machines.
The $5.95 ticket fee covers 1 Art Machine kit to make at the event and take home with you. Kits will also be available for purchase at the event.
Art Machines are designed so caregivers and learners can create in parallel, and FutureMakers recommends purchasing an Art Machine kit for each person who will attend that day.
As usual, we’ll have coffee from Bird in Hand for the grown ups, and lawn games to try!
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Book Signing with Joel Poiley: LAST MAN STANDING: How Tom Matte's Memorable 1965 Season Highlighted a Remarkable NFL Career
2024-08-12 17:00 - 19:00 | MD
The Ivy is delighted to present an evening for Baltimore Colts fans and sports history lovers to gather for a book signing and meet and greet with Joel Poiley! Poiley’s new biography, Last Man Standing: How Tom Matte’s Memorable 1965 Season Highlighted a Remarkable NFL Career, provides an intimate look and “a detailed account” (Booklist) of the career of Baltimore Colts’ running back Tom Matte and his celebrated stint as an emergency quarterback.
We hope you can join us between 5-7 to have a drink and get your book signed!
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Books will be available for sale at the event.
Joel Poiley has more than 45 years of journalism experience with newspapers, wire services, television stations, magazines and web sites. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, USA Today Sports Weekly, Baseball America, Beckett’s Baseball Monthly, Legends Magazine, ESPN.com and many other national media outlets.
Poiley has reported on professional and college athletics, including Tampa Bay Rays and Baltimore Orioles baseball, Tampa Bay Buccaneers football and University of Maryland and University of South Florida athletics for papers in Maryland and Florida. He covered boxer Sugar Ray Leonard as an amateur and his first pro fight in Baltimore. He also worked for Associated Press covering Tampa Bay Lightning hockey and spring training baseball.
Poiley has written stories for Major League Baseball’s postseason publications, and he wrote Cool Cars: Lean, Mean Racing Machines for Sports Illustrated for Kids book division that was printed in 2000.
Poiley has won several awards for newspaper features in Maryland and Tampa, and with Bay News 9, a 24-hour cable news station in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he worked on their web site. In 1996, he received the Florida Society of Professional Journalists Award of Excellence for a feature article in the Tampa Tribune on Cal Ripken’s pursuit of Lou Gehrig’s consecutive games streak. He also coordinated and wrote several stories as part of a six-part series about injuries and concussions in the NFL that ran in the Tampa Tribune in 1994.
Poiley assisted author Lars Anderson with research, fact checking and manuscript editing for Anderson’s book, A Season in the Sun, about Bruce Arians, Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers run to the Super Bowl LV championship.
Poiley’s book about former Baltimore Colt Tom Matte, titled Last Man Standing: How Tom Matte’s Memorable 1965 Season Highlighted a Remarkable NFL Career, will be published in August of 2024.
Poiley is a free-lance writer/editor in Tampa.

Living Room at Bird in Hand
2024-08-14 17:00 - 20:00 | Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Looking for a cozy evening out? Join us for Living Room @ Bird in Hand. We’ll offer: live music, snacks & drinks for purchase, and some starter craft materials. You can bring: your own crafts, cards, and whatever makes you feel at home. See you in our living room!
This month, we’re featuring jazz from neighborhood musicians Emefa Agawu and Jameson Owens. Stay until the end for a short activity!

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Booze and Browse, ft. Ethan Joella and THE SAME BRIGHT STARS
2024-08-16 17:00 - 20:00 | The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, 21209, United States
Presenting The Ivy’s August Booze & Browse, ft. Ethan Joella, author of THE SAME BRIGHT STARS, who will give an author talk and book signing at 6pm. As always, enjoy a free drink & 25% off travel books from 5-8pm!
THE SAME BRIGHT STARS is about some of our favorite things: small business, food, family, and the beach (Rehoboth, to be precise!). It’s a book about the decision whether to sell a family business to a corporate chain, about caring for ill and aging parents, and about deep connection to a place. We can’t wait to hear from Ethan at this special event.
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Ethan Joella teaches English and psychology at the University of Delaware. He is the author of A Little Hope, which was a Read with Jenna Bonus Selection, A Quiet Life, and The Same Bright Stars. He lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with his wife and two daughters.

Bird in Hand x Therapy Sounds Presents: Java Funk
2024-08-17 17:00 - 20:00 | Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Dive into an afternoon of deep house beats, delicious drinks, and divine vibes at the Java Funk collaborative event between Bird in Hand x Therapy Sounds. Join us for three hours of groovy tunes ranging from smooth lounge to funky house provided by Therapy Sounds residents @_andybig, @h0ppa, and @frankthedannk. Don’t miss out on this perfect blend of music and flavor!

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Humanities in the Village: Joseph Plaster, KIDS ON THE STREET (with Drew Daniel)
2024-08-26 18:30 - 20:30 | Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218, United States
Humanities in the Village returns for the 2024-25 year with this first event featuring Joseph Plaster, author of Kids on the Street, Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, in conversation with Drew Daniel!
In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States. Tracing the history of the downtown lodging house districts where marginally housed youth regularly lived beginning in the late 1800s, Plaster focuses on San Francisco’s Tenderloin from the 1950s to the present, excavating a history of queer life that has been overshadowed by major narratives of gay progress and pride.
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Audience Q&A after the reading—all are welcome! And while you’re there, pick up some recommended titles from Bird in Hand, and enjoy the offerings of nighttime beverages.
Joseph Plaster is Curator in Public Humanities and Director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University.
Drew Daniel is associate professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Twenty Jazz Funk Greats and The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology of the English Renaissance. He book from University of Chicago Press, Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature came out in 2022.
