Red Emma’s

In these escalating, turbulent times, let us turn to literature, to notes of solidarity, poetics of shared anger, calls to revolution. At AWP this year, we seek inspiration from the grassroots movements for radical justice and social equality that have sustained progressive ideas in Baltimore for decades, to curate this offsite reading. At Radical Reads, some incredible contemporary writers come together to share excerpts of writing, their own or of writers they admire, that can show us the way.

Chris Gonzalez, author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat (SFWP, 2021) I. S. Jones, author of Bloodmercy (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) noam keim, author of The Land is Holy (Radix, 2024) Preeti Vangani, author of Fifty Mothers (River River, 2026) Zein El-Amine, author of Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? (Radix, 2023) Zefyr Lisowski, author of Uncanny Valley Girls (Harper Perennial 2025) and Girl Work (Noemi Press 2024)