Bird in Hand is delighted to celebrate the launch of Rosalia Scalia's second short story collection, Under the Radar! This heartfelt collection offers a poignant look at characters grappling with grief and loss in various forms, with a focus on their struggles to find resilience in the face...
Let's write stories with author Katie MacNichol! The author of Be Careful, Little Duck will lead a storytelling workshop for children under 8 on this Saturday morning. Be Careful, Little Duck is a wholesome story where kids are in the lead, teaching their grown-up how to be brave as they go on...
Join us for an evening in celebration of the 4 Writers in Residence with Baltimore-based Yellow Arrow Press: Ashley Elizabeth, Kavitha Rath, Parisa Saranj, and Steph Sundermann-Zinger! Bird in Hand loves partnering with Yellow Arrow to offer writing space to the writers in residence, and we can't wait...
Sunday January 12, 2025 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at Bird in Hand Charles Village (Baltimore) with poets Tracy Dimond and Justin Marks! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). In our 7th year, the reading...
Bird in Hand is thrilled to present an evening of conversation on the history of American theater, led by Drew Lichtenberg Artistic Producer/Resident Dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and centered around his new book Shakespeare in the Theatre. This new volume is a behind-the-scenes account of...
Join us at Bird in Hand for an evening with local poets, including Linda Rabben, Liz Hazen, Traci O’Dea, Sam Schmidt, Virginia Crawford, and Steven Leyva! Looking forward to Valentine's Day, poets will read poems about that holiday. They'll introduce Linda Rabben's new collection of poems, BOOK OF...
Bird in Hand is thrilled to feature Ralph Hubbell, translator of the new classic from the New York Review of Books: Waiting for the Fear by Turkish author Oğuz Atay. Waiting for the Fear collects short stories about people on the margins, from story peddlers to beggars, by one of Turkey's...
Join us to celebrate SCENE SEEN, the incredible new art book documenting Baltimore's music scene from 2016-2024, including portraits of 85 bands taken over those 8 years. Daoure Diongue will kick off the evening with a performance of experimental ambient jazz. Then, stay for a Q&A with photographer...
You're invited to the first 2025 event 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. January's event features Jennifer Stager and Leila Easa, co-authors of Public Feminism in Times of...
Bird in Hand is honored to welcome beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and Baltimore's own Marion Winik in an event for their co-edited volume I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas. This volume is both a work of high intellect and a...
Acclaimed biographer Ruth Franklin visits Bird in Hand to discuss her fresh vantage point on the life of Anne Frank in this much-anticipated event! Comprehensively researched but experimental in spirit, The Many Lives of Anne Frank chronicles and interprets Anne’s life as a Jew in Amsterdam during World War II...
To what extent does a historical figure become a myth over time? In this original and provocative book, Stephen Campbell examines the strangeness of Leonardo da Vinci’s words and works, and considers how our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern myth. It is a...