The Ivy is pleased to present an evening of discussion around women in sports history, featuring Vicki Valosik and her engaging, thorough new history of women in synchronized swimming! Swimming Pretty explores the tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Join us for a conversation to help us engage more fully and critically with this particular political moment, featuring David Daley, author of Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections and Madiba Dennie, author of The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People...

A frequent request around the shop: "What would you recommend for a young reader approaching adult fiction?" A.S. King is perfect for this, and especially her newest novel, PICK THE LOCK, which tells of teenage Jane's bizarre and brilliant journey to reconnect with her mother by breaking out...

Sidney Morrison's new novel about one of history's-- and Baltimore history's-- greatest, takes the spotlight in this event on September 24th at the Ivy's back patio. Frederick Douglass: A Novel portrays Douglass' life in the richness of its conflict, drama, suspense, and ordinary interpersonal interactions, alongside the familiar, astonishing arc...

Presenting the Ivy's very own bookseller Jim Magruder, in celebration of his impressive new book project The Play's the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016)! David Yezzi will join Magruder to discuss this thoughtful chronicle, which shows how dozens of theater artists have played their parts in the evolution...

Join us for a special football season event for Ravens fans, featuring Ravens official Lou Hammond. Co-written with Paul Travers, They Call Me Sweet Lou: The Life and Times of a Football Official is a hilarious and heroic journey from the hardscrabble lot at Baltimore’s Radecke Park to the...

The Ivy is delighted to welcome Hahrie Han for a hometown event celebrating her new book Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church, the story of a faith-based program designed to foster antiracism and systemic change. The book emerged out of the observation that in 2016,...