Tupelo Press partners with us this month for a special reading series featuring Maggie Smith & Mark Parlette-Cariño! Friday, April 21st. 7:00pm at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road). Always free & open to the public. Complimentary refreshments at intermission. Maggie Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Weep Up (Tupelo Press, September 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own…
The Virginia Festival of the Book partners with us this month for a special reading series featuring Morgan Parker, Clare Beams, and Belle Boggs! Friday, March 24th. 7:00pm at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road). Always free & open to the public. Complimentary refreshments at intermission, including local wine from our friends at Stinson Vineyards. Morgan Parker…
WriterHouse partners with us this month for readings by Henry Hoke, Annie Kim, and Sharon Harrigan! Friday, February 17. 7:00pm, at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road). Always free & open to the public. Refreshments at intermission. Henry Hoke was a child in the South and an adult in New York and California. He authored The…
Join us Friday, January 27 for readings by Greg Wrenn, Erica Cavanagh, and Matt MacFarland. 7:00pm at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road). Always free & open to the public. Refreshments at intermission. Greg Wrenn‘s first book of poetry, Centaur, was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Brittingham Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The…
Join us Friday, December 16 for readings by Lulu Miller & Kristin Swenson. 7:00pm at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road). Always free & open to the public. Refreshments at intermission. This special holiday reading will be held in conjunction with the Gift Forest, a pop-up market featuring over 50 artists, makers and collectors from across the region. Lulu Miller is co-host…
Join us Friday, November 18 for readings by poet Kate Lynn Nemett & journalist Jordy Yager. 7:00pm at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road). Always free & open to the public. Refreshments at intermission. Kate Lynn Nemett (nee Schirmer) received an MFA in Writing/Poetry from Columbia University in 2006 and a Bachelors of Arts degree from…
Join us October 21 for readings & performances by writers Dahlia Lithwick, Jack Hamilton, and songwriter Abbie Barrett. 7:00pm at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road). Shout out to our sponsor this month, the Bloom Real Estate team at Virginia Select Realty! Abbie Barrett is a singer and songwriter living in Boston, Massachusetts. She’s been featured in Magnet…
Virginia Quarterly Review partners with us this month for readings by Garnette Cadogan, Kelli Jo Ford, and Scott Weaver! Friday, September 23. 7:00pm at the Bridge PAI (209 Monticello Road). Refreshments available at intermission. Garnette Cadogan is Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and Visiting Scholar at the…
The Charlottesville Reading Series is excited to partner with the The Garage (250 1st St N) to bring words and music outside for a summer reading & performance! Grab a blanket, your lawn chairs, and some friends and join us in welcoming writers Aaron Belz and Natasha Oladokun and songwriter Abe Wilson to the series. Aaron…
Join us at Newcomb Ballroom on U.Va.’s campus for readings by Joshua Poteat and Bronwen Dickey on Friday, June 24 at 7:00pm. Refreshments will be available at intermission. Joshua Poteat’s most recent book, The Regret Histories (HarperCollins, 2015), won the 2014 National Poetry Series prize. He is also the author of Illustrating the Machine that Makes the…