Yarn and Yap is a series for learning new yarn-based crafts, and for meeting new yarn enthusiasts-- and the May edition is all about cross-stitch. Click here to RSVP! This series is organized by our very own barista, GK, whose crafts have found a home for sale next...
A morning of travel-themed activities with Angela Dale, author of the new picture book GOODBYE, HELLO! In this lively story, travel across the globe, across busy highways and crowded airports, with strollers and toys, with an LGBTQ+ Navy family to return home and reunite with Mama. RSVP here!
Did you know... that the Ivy has its own beehives?! Attentively tended by Chad Cover and Nate Anderson, these hives are the happy homes to vibrant tiny bee-cities. Now's your chance to put this all in context, as Tara Chapman, author of For the Bees: A Handbook for Happy...
A Friday evening of music and books on the patio, highlighting Tyson Koska's new biography of the band CRACK THE SKY! Join us to celebrate the book with the author, who will treat us to a music performance and discuss the book. Click here to RSVP! In 1975,...
Do we have any cat lovers among the kids out there? We thought so. Meet Fiona, short for Queen Fiona of Apartment 4C. She's the star of Rennie Dyball's new picture book, FIONA AND THE PECULIAR PRAISE. Come on down to the Ivy on Saturday, May 31 for activities...
Bird in Hand is delighted to host Winifred Hughes and Diane Macklin for an evening of poetry and conversation! Hughes' new poetry collection THE VILLAGE OF NEW GHOSTS, won the won the 2024 Henry Morgenthau III First Book Poetry Prize for a Writer Over 70, which is facilitated...
Tom McAllister's memoir-in-essays It All Felt Impossible employs an exciting and thoughtful form: 1 short essay for every year he’s been alive. With each piece strictly limited to a maximum of 1,500 words, these 42 essays move fluidly through time, taking poetic leaps and ending up in places we can't...
The Ivy is delighted to host McKay Jenkins in conversation with Lia Purpura-- two writers who have long joined the natural world with the written one in their creative work-- to spotlight Jenkins' new volume, The Maryland Master Naturalist's Handbook. This book illustrates the deep connections among the...
What do fashion and lacrosse have in common? Let's find out! Jessica Anya Blau and S.L. Price celebrate their new books in conversation with Elizabeth Hazen and with live 80's music from Steve Martel. Shopgirls, the new release from Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane, is a...
Charm City Spec moves to the patio at The Ivy Bookshop for its summertime event! Join us for Baltimore's longstanding speculative fiction reading series, featuring writers: Sunny Moraine Aysha U. Farah Dominique Dickey Venessa Vida Kelley M. M. Olivas And books: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity...
Sunday June 8, 2025 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore) with poets Reginald Harris & G. H. Mosson! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). Now in our 7th year, the reading...
At the start of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, King Lear promises to divide his kingdom based on his daughters’ professions of love, but portions it out before hearing all of their answers. For Nan Da, this opening scene sparks a reckoning between The Tragedy of King Lear, one of the...