Red Emma’s Mother Earth Poetry Vibe—featuring FreeQuency!

Red Emma’s Mother Earth Poetry Vibe is a justice-focused poetry and spoken-word gathering centered on solidarity, conscious thought, spirituality, community, and social transformation. Inspired by the tradition of Emma Goldman’s *Mother Earth* magazine, the evening invites people to perform, listen, and contribute their presence and energy to a community open mic. The event is intended for non-erotic poetry rather than romantic “love” poetry, and attendees are asked to leave misogyny, homophobia, and similar harms outside.

Featured artist FreeQuency will provide the evening’s main artistic and liberatory presence. The event will also feature Analysis as host, with an open mic available to attendees. A mic list will be prepared at Red Emma’s, and the organizers will pass a physical and electronic donation bucket to support the featured poet and help sustain future programming.

When: Saturday, November 7th 2026

Showtimes: The event begins at 6:00 pm.

Venue: Red Emma’s, 3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland

Tickets: Price not available

RSVP: The page invites attendees to RSVP online.

Featured artist: FreeQuency is a Kenyan, immigrant, Shoga/Queer storyteller, speaker, and feeler. They are the 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, a 2017 TEDWomen speaker, and the third-ranked poet at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam. Their work spans performance, hosting, social-justice teaching, and workshops, with connections to reproductive justice, #BlackLivesMatter organizing and activism, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and writing.

Featured artist background: FreeQuency’s work has appeared in or been covered by outlets including *The Independent*, *The New York Times*, OkayAfrica, Upworthy, TEDx, For Harriet, *Teen Vogue*, *Huffington Post*, and *Everyday Feminism*. They founded A Gate Is Leaning, a Black poetry series, and EMERGENT, a storytellers retreat at Foxfire Ranch, and co-founded the Afro-Fashion and Culture blog Noirlinians.

Featured artist honors: FreeQuency has received Louisiana’s Worldmakers Grant, the Poets & Writers Project Grants for BIPOC Writers, the Platforms Fund, the Newcomb Alumni Association Young Alumni Award, and the Black Out LOUD Excellence in Arts Activism Conference Award. They have also been named to Gambit’s 40 Under 40, selected as an Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health Scholar, and recognized as a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts YBCA 100 Honoree. Their social-justice spoken-word work was the subject of the dissertation “Slam Poetry vs. Racism: Awakening Awareness and Social Change in FreeQuency’s ‘Dear White People’ and ‘The Gospel of Colonization.’”

Host: Analysis will hold down the evening as a poet, spoken-word artist, author, radical minister, bookseller, educator, and justice and human-rights advocate.

Open mic: Attendees may sign up to share their own work. The mic list will be available at Red Emma’s.

Community guidelines: The organizers describe the event as a non-erotic poetry evening and ask participants not to bring misogyny, homophobia, or other harmful behavior into the gathering.

Artist support: Attendees are encouraged to support the independent artists. The event will collect donations in person and electronically for the featured poet and for future programming; support for Analysis is listed through Cash App at $AnalysisThePoet.

Venue note: Red Emma’s is a worker-owned, collectively operated bookstore, coffeehouse, restaurant, and community events space in Baltimore’s Waverly neighborhood. The cooperative emphasizes solidarity and sustainability in its democratic workplace.