2814 Pennsylvania Ave NW (at M St NW)
an independently owned bookstore
Upcoming Readings
There are no upcoming readings scheduled for this series.
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
Sunday, November 10, 8:00 p.m.
Jessica E. Johnson, Tyler Mills & Sarah Rose Nordgren
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, October 16, 8 p.m.
Ali, Graham, lewis, & Longmire
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, April 26, 8:00 p.m.
Eileen Myles
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 23, 8:00 p.m.
Anne Boyer & Peter Gizzi
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 9, 8:00 p.m.
Phyllis Rosenzweig, Diane Ward & Terence Winch
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, January 22, 7:00pm
Book Party and Reading for Doug Lang
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 23, 8:00 p.m.
Allison Cobb & Brian Teare
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, February 23, 6:00 p.m.
Seth Perlow & Daniel Tiffany
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, February 2, 6:00 p.m.
Lisa Robertson & Lindsay Bernal
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, November 24, 6:00 p.m.
Ben Doller, Sandra Doller & Buck Downs
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 27, 6:00 p.m.
Anne Lesley Selcer & K. Lorraine Graham
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, August 4, 6:00 p.m.
John James, Christopher Kondrich & Elizabeth Arnold
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, June 2, 6:00 p.m.
Heather Fuller, Suzanne Stein, & Mark Wallace
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 12, 6:00 p.m.
Jean Day, Tina Darragh & Alan Bernheimer
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, March 10, 6:00 p.m.
Kristen Case and Mande Zecca
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, February 24, 6:00 p.m.
Steven Zultanski, Cecily Iddings, & Adam Greenberg
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, November 12, 8:00 p.m.
Charles Bernstein
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, November 4, 6:00 p.m.
Jennifer Moxley
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 14, 6:00 p.m.
Jennifer Fink and Michael Mejia
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, September 30, 6:00 p.m.
David Bromige celebration
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, September 23, 6:00 p.m.
Lauren Levin, Sara Marron, and Oki Sogumi
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 13, 6:00 pm
Donato Mancini & Mark Francis Johnson
@ DC Arts Center
Sunday, January 14, 6:00 pm
C.A. Conrad & Heather Fuller
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, June 4, 6:00 pm
Mark Wallace, Suzanne Stein & Buck Downs
@ Bridge Street Books
Tuesday, March 14, 7:30 p.m.
Colin Browne, Daphne Marlatt, Chris Nealon & Fred Wah
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, January 16, 8:00 p.m.
Alan Bernheimer & Casey Smith
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, June 1, 7:30 p.m.
Jules Boykoff book party for Power Games: The Political History of the Olympics
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 15, 7:00 p.m.
Anselm Berrigan & Jamie Perez
@ Bridge Street Books
Thursday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.
Sandra Simonds, Megan Ronan, & Tony Mancus
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.
Lynne Dreyer & Ken Jacobs
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 3, 6:00 p.m.
Cathy Eisenhower & Mark McMorris
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.
Charles Bernstein
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, March 21, 7:30 p.m.
Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, Chris Nealon, & Juliana Spahr
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, February 3, 7:30PM
Bill Berkson and Adam Robinson
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 4, 6:00 p.m.
Eileen Myles
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, June 14, 6:00 p.m.
Stephanie Barber, Cathy Eisenhower, & Mel Nichols
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 31, 6:00 p.m.
Corina Copp, Ben Fama, & Steve Zultanski
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 24, 6:00 p.m.
Sommer Browning, Jeff Derksen, & Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 10, 6:00 p.m.
Kareem Estafan, Donato Mancini, Casey Smith, & Aaron Winslow
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, February 8, 6:00 p.m.
Laynie Browne, Pattie McCarthy & Megan Ronan
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, December 7, 7:00 p.m.
P. Inman & Doug Lang
@ Bridge Street Books
Tuesday, September 23, 7:30pm
Elizabeth Arnold, Anthony Madrid, & Joshua Weiner
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, May 28, 8:00 pm
Brian Fitzpatrick & Mark Wallace
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, May 21, 8:00 pm
Book Party for Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, the City Lights Centennial Edition, with editor Seth Perlow
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, December 29, 7:00 pm
Ben Doller, Sandra Doller & Adam Marston
@ Bridge Street Books
Thursday, November 14, 8:00 pm
Bruce Andrews & P. Inman
@ Bridge Street Books
Tuesday, July 30, 8:00 pm
Lee Ann Brown & Buck Downs
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, June 19, 8:00 pm
Doug Lang & Terence Winch
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, April 17, 8:00 pm
Charles Bernstein
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, March 31, 7:00 p.m.
Franklin Bruno & Benjamin Friedlander
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, September 30, 7:00 PM
Lisa Jarnot, a Reading and Publication Celebration for the recently published biography Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus
@ Bridge Street Books
Tuesday, May 8, 8:00PM
Barrett Watten & Ryan Walker
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, March 28, 7:30 pm
Brandon Brown, Josef Kaplan and Justin Sirois
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, March 25, 7:00 p.m.
Doug Lang & Casey Smith
@ Bridge Street Books
Thursday, October 27, 7:30 pm
Camille Martin, Mel Nichols, & Amy Wright
@ Bridge Street Books
Thursday, October 20, 7:30 pm
Shanna Compton, Susana Gardner, & Maureen Thorson
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 9, 7:00 p.m.
Anselm Berrigan
@ Bridge Street Books
Thursday, September 29, 7:30 pm
Dan Gutstein & Terence Winch
@ Bridge Street Books
Tuesday, July 26, 7:30 pm
Corina Copp, Lewis Freedman & Ryan Walker
@ Bridge Street Books
Tuesday, May 24, 7:30 pm
Thirteen Fugues by Jennifer Natalya Fink & The Quarry and The Lot by Mark Wallace
@ Bridge Street Books
Tuesday, April 12, 7:30 pm
Kit Robinson
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, March 7, 7:00 pm
The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century
@ Bridge Street Books
Saturday, February 5, 1:00 pm
The Song Cave AWP reading
@ Bridge Street Books
Saturday, February 5, 7:00 p.m.
ROSMARIE WALDROP, COLE SWENSEN, SASHA STEENSEN, JANE SPRAGUE, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, LAURA MORIARTY, MARK MCMORRIS, EILEEN MYLES, LEE ANN BROWN, & CHARLES ALEXANDER
@ Bridge Street Books
Friday, February 4, 8:00 pm
The Four Seasons AWP Reading
@ The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown
Thursday, February 3, 6 pm - 8 pm
THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN & THE H.D. BOOK BY ROBERT DUNCAN
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, November 22, 7:00 p.m.
Sarah Riggs & Cole Swensen
@ Bridge Street Books
Friday, November 12, 8:00 pm
Tom Raworth & Steve Zultanski
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, September 26, 7:00 p.m.
Eileen Myles & Buck Downs
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, September 20, 7:30 pm
Charles Bernstein
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 23, 7:00 p.m.
Mark Wallace & Brian Fitzpatrick
@ Bridge Street
Wednesday, January 6, 7:30 pm
William R. Howe, L.A. Howe & Michael Basinski
@ Bridge Street Books
Tuesday, December 15, 7:30 p.m.
K. Silem Mohammad, Lacey Hunter, Ken Jacobs
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, December 9, 7:30 pm
Jennifer Scappettone & Ryan Walker
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, November 23, 7:00 p.m.
Anselm Berrigan & Michael Gizzi
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, November 2, 7:30 pm
Kenneth Goldsmith
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 4, 7:00 p.m.
Eileen Myles & Hoa Nguyen
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, September 13, 7:00 p.m.
A Book party and reading for American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry featuring Mark McMorris, Rod Smith, Cole Swensen, & John Taggart
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, June 14, 7:00 p.m.
Bill Berkson
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, June 10, 8:00pm
Buck Downs & Joe Ross
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, June 7, 7:00 p.m.
Diane Ward & Jane Sprague
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 10, 7:00 p.m.
Ben Lerner & Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 26, 7:00 p.m.
Lynne Dreyer & P. Inman
@ Bridge Street Books
Saturday, April 18, 8:00pm
Rae Armantrout & Mel Nichols
@ Bridge Street Books
Saturday, April 11, 8:00pm
Tina Darragh & Aaron Kunin
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, March 23, 7:00 p.m.
Mark Cunningham, Anne Gorrick, and Maryrose Larkin
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, January 12, 7:00 p.m.
Cole Swensen, Leslie Scalapino & Laura Walker
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, September 28, 7:00 p.m.
Dina Gatina, Gennady Kanevsky, Ilya Kukulin, and Nikolai Zvyagintsev
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, July 20, 7:00 p.m.
6 POETS AT BRIDGE STREET
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 6, 7:00 p.m.
Evgeny Bunimovich, Elena Fanailova, & Yuli Gugolev
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, March 31, 7:00 p.m.
Christina Strong & Mark Wallace
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 pm
Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
@ Bridge Street Books
Saturday, February 9, 8:00 p.m.
Jules Boykoff, book party for BEYOND BULLETS: THE SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT IN THE UNITED STATES
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, February 4, 7:00 p.m.
Lisa Jarnot and Eileen Myles
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, September 23, 7:00 p.m.
Rae Armantrout, Ben Doyle & Sandra Miller
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 27, 7:00 p.m.
Ron Silliman and Tom Mandel
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 22, 7:00 p.m.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Bob Perelman
@ Bridge Street Books
Friday, April 6, 7:00 p.m.
Peter Gizzi
@ Bridge Street Books
Friday, March 9, 7:00 p.m.
Tom Raworth and Doug Lang
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, November 20, 7:00 p.m.
Charles Bernstein
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, November 6, 7:00 p.m.
Ron Padgett and Amy King
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, October 30, 7:00 p.m.
Terence Winch and Geoffrey Young
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 8, 7:00 p.m.
Michael Friedman and Tom Orange
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, June 11, 7:00 p.m.
Mel Nichols and Leslie Scalapino
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, June 4, 7:00 p.m.
Mark Wallace and Karen Weiser
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, June 4, 7:00 p.m.
Mark Wallace & Christina Strong
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 14, 7:00 p.m.
Joshua Clover and Heather Fuller
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 14, 7:00 p.m.
Joshua Clover & TBA
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Sunday, April 23, 7:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Hocquard<br>with translations read by Cole Swensen and Rod Smith
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 23, 7:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Hocquard with translations read by Cole Swensen and Rod Smith
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 2, 7:00 p.m.
Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 2, 7:00 p.m.
Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, March 6, 7:00 p.m.
Tim Davis and Ben Friedlander
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, March 6, 7:00 p.m.
Tim Davis & Ben Friedlander
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, December 4, 7:00 p.m.
Tina Darragh and P. Inman
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 9, 7:00 p.m.
Doug Lang and Tom Raworth
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Sunday, April 24, 7:00 p.m.
Dan Gutstein & Eric Pankey
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 10, 7:00 p.m.
Lisa Jarnot & Thomas Evans
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, December 13, 7:00 p.m.
Anselm Berrigan and Tom Orange
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, November 8, 7:00 p.m.
Jean Donnelly and Mark Wallace
@ Bridge Street Books
Wednesday, September 22, 7:00 p.m.
Charles Bernstein
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, May 2, 7:00 p.m.
Jules Boykoff and Noah Eli Gordon
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, April 11, 7:00 p.m.
Cole Swensen and Pattie McCarthy
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, March 29, 7:00 p.m.
Allison Cobb and Sue Landers
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, March 1, 7:00 p.m.
Kaia Sand and Mark Wallace
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, February 24, 7:00 p.m.
Tom Raworth
@ Bridge Street Books
Monday, December 9, 7:00 p.m.
Pattie McCarthy and Leslie Scalapino
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 20, 7:00 p.m.
Jen Hofer and Chris Nealon
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, October 6, 7:00 p.m.
Lorraine Graham, Tom Orange and Jessica Smith
@ Bridge Street Books
Sunday, September 22, 7:00 p.m.
Anselm Berrigan and Jean Donnelly
@ Bridge Street Books
