Red Emma’s

In addition to celebrating the latest Haymarket poetry books, C. Fausto Cabrera and Zeke Caligiuri will read on behalf of Kennedy Amenya Gisege and B Batchelor, whose chapbooks are coming out from Lost Kite Editions. C, Zeke, Kennedy, and B are all finalists or winners of the Writing Freedom Fellowship, awarded by Haymarket Books to talented emerging and established writers impacted by the carceral system.

Lost Kite Editions is a partner of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and an independent nonprofit publisher of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and ephemera based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

bios: Cortney Lamar Charleston, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow and a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. He is the author of prize-winning collections of poetry, It's Important I Remember (2026)  Dopplegangbanger (2021), and Telepathologies (2016). He began writing and performing poetry as a member of The Excelano Project as an undergraduate studying economics and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism.

Golden (they/them) is a poet, photographer, installation artist, and educator raised in Hampton, VA (Kikotan land). They are the author of A Dead Name That Learned How to Live (Game Over Books), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry (2023), and Reprise (Haymarket Books). Golden’s award-winning photographic series On Learning How to Live, _featured in _Reprise, was long-listed for the Aperture Portfolio Prize (2021) and selected as a finalist for the Arnold Newman Prize (2021). Their work can be found in The Boston Globe, Best of the Net Anthology, Button Poetry, The Nation, Poetry Magazine, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Golden holds a BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University, and is currently a Nancy Craig Blackburn ’71 Fellow at Randolph College.

Maya Salameh is the author of How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Prize, and the chapbook rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). Salameh has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities. She has served as a National Student Poet, America’s highest honor for youth poets, and a Community Organizer for the Institute for Diversity in the Arts. Her work has appeared in The Offing, Mizna, Poetry, Gulf Coast, and The Rumpus, among others. She is based in Los Angeles, California.

Daniella Toosie-Watson (she/they) is a poet, visual artist, and educator from New York whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Daniella received their MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program.

C. Fausto Cabrera is a multi-genre artist, and author of The Parameters of Our Cage with Alec Soth. His art defies boundaries of container or scope, weaving survival into every medium like his Inherited Scars series—transforming trauma into handmade paper art—shown at museums and galleries. He is the recipient of the inaugural Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellowship and a 2025 Common Justice Practitioners Lab Fellow. Cabrera is the Director of Transformative Justice at the Damascus Way ReEntry & Recovery Center. Find him at www.cfausto.art

Zeke Caligiuri is a writer from South Minneapolis. His memoir This is Where I Am, was named a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. He co-founded the Stillwater Writer’s Collective and co-edited American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion. He is directly impacted by over two decades of incarceration and currently works with the Minnesota Justice Research Center to empower system- impacted people and reinvest in the humanization of those still stuck within the captivity business. He is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota, and inaugural Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow.