READING: Host Publications
Thu, Mar 05
|Le Mondo
A Free Off-Site Event for AWP | Poetics of Liberation is an intersectional feminist reading and community gathering celebrating poets whose work inspires social transformation.
Time & Location
Mar 05, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Le Mondo, 406 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
About The Event
Poetics of Liberation is an intersectional feminist reading and community gathering celebrating poets whose work inspires social transformation. Hosted at Le Mondo, an artist-owned theater in the heart of Baltimore, we are thrilled to feature dezireé a. brown, Ashley-Devon, María Esquinca, Chiagoziem Jideofor, Katelin Kelly, Jae Nichelle, Susan Nguyen, jj peña, m. mick powell, heidi andrea, restrepo rhodes, and Tyehimba Jess.
Hosted by Host Publications editors Annar Veröld-Miranda & Claire Bowman!
✦ Free & open to all lovers of literature.
✦ This reading will feature literary-themed handcrafted mocktails.
✦ Health and safety note: masks are encouraged and will be provided.
Doors: 6:30PM
Show: 7PM - 9:30PM
Networking & Mingling: Before & After Show!
ABOUT HOST PUBLICATIONS
Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.
With every book we publish, stage we set, and event we host, we work to empower our community of writers whose work inspires social transformation and creates a new sense of what is possible in writing.