Kazim Ali (San Diego, CA) was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including poetry, essay, fiction, and cross-genre work. His Sukun: New and Selected Poems was recently released by Wesleyan University Press. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego.
K. Lorraine Graham makes poems and texts that sometimes manifest as drawings, games and performances. She is the author of The Rest is Censored (Bloof Books), Terminal Humming (Edge Books) and numerous zines, including Semiotic Squares (Primary Writing), a book of drawings, and My Little Neoliberal Pony (Insert Blanc Press). Graham earned an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and is an artist at STABLE Arts in Washington, D.C., where she also lives.
erica lewis (San Francisco, CA) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her books include mahogany, the precipice of jupiter, camera obscura, murmur in the inventory, and the first two books of the box set trilogy: daryl hall is my boyfriend and mary wants to be a superwoman.
Warren Longmire is a writer, technologist, and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is a former co-editor of Apiary Magazine, a board member for Blue Stoop and has taught at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He's been published in journals including Prolit, American Poetry Review and The Painted Bride Quarterly and is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology. His first full length publication, Open Source, was released in 2021 through Radiator Press.
Location:
Bridge Street Books is located 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
(202) 965-5200
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.