In concert with 2026 Associated Writers’ Program Conference & Book Fair.

This memorial event, featuring contemporary poetry and a short historical talk, will honor the memory of thousands of people sold from Baltimore in the interstate slave trade between 1808, when the transatlantic slave trade was outlawed, and 1864, when Maryland abolished slavery.

Featuring poets Abdul Ali, abdu mongo ali, Hayes Davis, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Reginald Harris, Taylor Johnson, Lauren Russell, and Stewart Shaw, along with scholar Lawrence Jackson.

For more information, click here.