Gail Straub and Steve Gorn invite you to a special event at Blue Heron Books honoring our unity as a human family across cultures and time.

In honor of the 30th Anniversary of National Poetry Month, please JOIN US for a reading by Hudson Valley poet Catherine Arra from her latest chapbook, PERENNIAL COSMOLOGY, exploring “the life-death cycle in nature and in everday living.”

Reissued in March 2026, the book was a finalist for both a Lambda Literary Award and for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Prize. Lilith called the book “fascinating, compulsively readable, delightful… and tills new and important ground.”

Experience a poetic and political celebration of identity with a screening of the award-winning documentary Orlando, My Political Biography, a modern love letter to Woolf’s iconic protagonist.

Lend your voice to our marathon reading as we bring Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece Orlando to life, traveling through three centuries in a single day.

Join renowned Woolf scholar Dr. Madelyn Detloff for an illuminating conversation exploring Orlando through the lenses of queer history and trans-visibility.

An afternoon with Steven Fechter & C. B. Whitaker, discussing Steven’s novel The Big Breeze

An Evening with author Stefan Merrill Block discussing his book Homeschooled

An Evening of Erotic Poetry with Elana Bell, Tina Barry, Irena “Namyrah” Nayfeld, and Lisa St. John.

An Evening with Author Emma Tourtelot discussing her debut novel No One You Know

Join us for a 250-Year toast to truth, wit & Mr. Darcy. She may not be able to join us in person, but Jane will absolutely be with us in spirit :)

An Evening with Author Jeremy Varon & L.A. Kauffman discussing Jeremy’s book Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War

An afternoon with Author Benjamin H. Shepard discussing his book Activism, Friendship, And Fighting with Jay Blotcher

An afternoon reading her latest book of essays, Unexploded Ordnance

An evening with Natasha Williams discussing her debut book, The Parts of Him I Kept.

An Evening with José Sotolongo discussing his second novel, The Optimistic Cuban

Elizabeth Cunningham in conversation with Kristen Holt-Browning about their respective books: Over the Edge of the World and Ordinary Devotion.

An evening with Mark Hussey discussing Virginia Woolf and his new book, Mrs. Dalloway, Biography of a Novel.

An evening with Donna Minkowitz discussing her new book, Donnaville

An evening with Katherine Franke, author of Wedlocked and Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition, in conversation with Shaniqua Bowden.

Sophie Strand on Ecological Storytelling

An evening with Meg Stone discussing her new book, The Cost Of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice is Sexist & How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence

An evening with Matt Silverman discussing his new book, Art Shamsky, Stories I Only Tell My Friends

Stone Angels author, Helena Rho, in conversation with Hyeseung Song.

Marathon Reading of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno.

Únase a nosotros para una lectura en vivo por la tarde del clásico de Charles Dickens, "Un cuento de Navidad".

Join “Ivy League Witch” Emily McGill and comedian Jenn Lederer for a hilarious afternoon of comedic tarot.

Join Miller Oberman as he discusses his new book, Impossible Things

Join Kim Liao as she discusses her new book, Where Every Ghost Has a Name