Bridge Street Books Anthology
Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW (at M St NW)
an independently owned bookstore
Upcoming Readings:
All readings Sundays at 7 PM unless otherwise indicated
In business for over twenty years, Bridge Street is one of a rare breed these days--a successful independent bookseller. It has what is certainly the best poetry section in Washington, well-stocked in alternative poetry and poetics as well as mainstream. Bridge Street also has extremely good selections in Philosophy, Politics, Cultural Theory, Women's Studies, Film, Music, and other areas. They also have a plethora of quality sale books. Manager (& well-known poet!) Rod Smith has been organizing readings in the Washington Area since 1988 and has brought Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, Lee Ann Brown, John Cage, Kevin Davies, Lyn Hejinian, Lisa Jarnot, Alice Notley, Tom Raworth, Lisa Robertson, Leslie Scalapino, Chris Stroffolino and many other important writers to DC. 5 blocks from
Foggy Bottom Metro, next to Four Seasons in Georgetown at the end of M street
open Monday - Saturday: 11:00am - 9pm
Sunday: 12pm - 6pm
Past Readings:
May 8, 2012
Barrett Watten & Ryan Walker
March 28, 2012
Brandon Brown, Josef Kaplan and Justin Sirois
March 25, 2012
Doug Lang & Casey Smith
October 27, 2011
Camille Martin, Mel Nichols, & Amy Wright
October 20, 2011
Shanna Compton, Susana Gardner, & Maureen Thorson
October 9, 2011
Anselm Berrigan
September 29, 2011
Dan Gutstein & Terence Winch
July 26, 2011
Corina Copp, Lewis Freedman & Ryan Walker
May 24, 2011
Thirteen Fugues by Jennifer Natalya Fink & The Quarry and The Lot by Mark Wallace
April 12, 2011
Kit Robinson
March 7, 2011
The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century
February 5, 2011
The Song Cave AWP reading
February 5, 2011
ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN, JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, LAURA MORIARTY, MARK MCMORRIS, EILEEN MYLES, LEE ANN BROWN, & CHARLES ALEXANDER
February 4, 2011
The Four Seasons AWP Reading
February 3, 2011
THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN & THE H.D. BOOK BY ROBERT DUNCAN
November 22, 2010
Sarah Riggs & Cole Swensen
November 12, 2010
Tom Raworth & Steve Zultanski
September 26, 2010
Eileen Myles & Buck Downs
September 20, 2010
Charles Bernstein
May 23, 2010
Mark Wallace & Brian Fitzpatrick
January 6, 2010
William R. Howe, L.A. Howe & Michael Basinski
December 15, 2009
K. Silem Mohammad, Lacey Hunter, Ken Jacobs
December 9, 2009
Jennifer Scappettone & Ryan Walker
November 23, 2009
Anselm Berrigan & Michael Gizzi
November 2, 2009
Kenneth Goldsmith
October 4, 2009
Eileen Myles & Hoa Nguyen
September 13, 2009
A Book party and reading for American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry featuring Mark McMorris, Rod Smith, Cole Swensen, & John Taggart
June 14, 2009
Bill Berkson
June 10, 2009
Buck Downs & Joe Ross
June 7, 2009
Diane Ward & Jane Sprague
May 10, 2009
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon
April 26, 2009
Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman
April 18, 2009
Rae Armantrout & Mel Nichols
April 11, 2009
Tina Darragh & Aaron Kunin
March 23, 2009
Mark Cunningham, Anne Gorrick, and Maryrose Larkin
January 12, 2009
Cole Swensen, Leslie Scalapino & Laura Walker
September 28, 2008
Dina Gatina, Gennady Kanevsky, Ilya Kukulin, and Nikolai Zvyagintsev
July 20, 2008
6 POETS AT BRIDGE STREET
April 6, 2008
Evgeny Bunimovich, Elena Fanailova, & Yuli Gugolev
March 31, 2008
Christina Strong & Mark Wallace
March 26, 2008
Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
February 9, 2008
Jules Boykoff, book party for BEYOND BULLETS: THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT IN THE UNITED STATES
February 4, 2008
Lisa Jarnot and Eileen Myles
September 23, 2007
Rae Armantrout, Ben Doyle & Sandra Miller
May 27, 2007
Ron Silliman and Tom Mandel
April 22, 2007
Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Bob Perelman
April 6, 2007
Peter Gizzi
March 9, 2007
Tom Raworth and Doug Lang
November 20, 2006
Charles Bernstein
November 6, 2006
Ron Padgett and Amy King
October 30, 2006
Terence Winch and Geoffrey Young
October 8, 2006
Michael Friedman and Tom Orange
June 11, 2006
Mel Nichols and Leslie Scalapino
June 4, 2006
Mark Wallace and Karen Weiser
May 14, 2006
Joshua Clover and Heather Fuller
April 23, 2006
Emmanuel Hocquard
with translations read by Cole Swensen and Rod Smith
April 2, 2006
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
March 6, 2006
Tim Davis and Ben Friedlander
December 4, 2005
Tina Darragh and P. Inman
October 9, 2005
Doug Lang and Tom Raworth
April 24, 2005
Dan Gutstein & Eric Pankey
April 10, 2005
Lisa Jarnot & Thomas Evans
December 13, 2004
Anselm Berrigan and Tom Orange
November 8, 2004
Jean Donnelly and Mark Wallace
September 22, 2004
Charles Bernstein
May 2, 2004
Jules Boykoff and Noah Eli Gordon
April 11, 2004
Cole Swensen and Pattie McCarthy
March 29, 2004
Allison Cobb and Sue Landers
March 1, 2004
Kaia Sand and Mark Wallace
February 24, 2003
Tom Raworth
December 9, 2002
Pattie McCarthy and Leslie Scalapino
October 20, 2002
Jen Hofer and Chris Nealon
October 6, 2002
Lorraine Graham, Tom Orange and Jessica Smith
September 22, 2002
Anselm Berrigan and Jean Donnelly
