We're so excited that this year's volume of The Best American Poetry is compiled and edited by Baltimore-based poet and professor Mary Jo Salter! Join us to launch the anthology into the world from The Ivy's back patio, where contributors including Armen Davoudian, and fellow editors including Dora...
Join Bird in Hand and the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University for an evening with Dr. Josephine Quinn, a brilliant, fun, and engaging ancient historian specializing in Phoenician history and the deconstruction of concepts of the ‘West.’ This event will center around her brand-new book How...
Two Wheels to Freedom by Arthur Magida is the extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student who not just survived Nazi occupation but resisted and saved hundreds of lives—all while retaining his infectious zeal for life. The Ivy is pleased to invite you to an event with...
The new monthly comedy series continues at Bird in Hand, hosted and curated by the one & only Satarah Fisher! This month's featured comedians: Domo Cann, Jake Leizear, & Bria Beddoe. Join us at 6pm to hear the featured comedians, or at 7pm for the free open mic!...
Head to the Ivy on Saturday morning to make a craft with children's author Meghana Narayan, whose picture book A Little Bit of Everything is a beautiful story of a child learning about her heritage-- all the things that make her her-- to pass it along to her new sibling. Joined by...
Come join us at Bird in Hand on the evening of September 7th for the spring edition of Charm City Spec! For this edition of Baltimore's longstanding speculative fiction reading series, you'll hear from T. T. Madden, Ann Leblanc, P. H. Low, and J. L. Birchwood! Whether it's...
Sunday September 8th (4pm) THE HOT L POETS SERIES returns after summer break, with poets Alejandro Lucero and Peter Vertacnik! The event will be on the Ivy's Back Patio. The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). The reading series is...
In 1963, the Hammond-Harwood House Association published Maryland’s Way, The Hammond-Harwood House Cook Book, which includes over 700 recipes sourced from centuries’ old manuscript recipe books and contributions from Marylanders from across the state. Since its inception over 60 years ago, it has sold over 100,000 copies and is still...
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. And it's back for the new acadmic year! This first event will feature Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy, author of Landscapes...
In this one-of-a-kind evening, The Ivy is delighted to bring together two writers with recent books, in different genres, about Americans on the peripheries of war in Vietnam: children and wives of American servicemen. In his memoir, Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the...
Head to the Ivy on Saturday morning, September 14th, to make a craft with children's author Dee Write, whose picture books about Little Ruth follow a young character learning to build confidence and head out into the world (like on the first day of school!) with the support...
Former editor of the Baltimore Sun Kenneth N. Weiss, visits the Ivy to speak about his new book on the earliest form of “social media”-- letters to the editor from the 1800s to the 20th century. The letters address topics from pandemics to abortion. It's remarkable to see...