Red Emma’s

Buffalo Chick'n Wingz - Housemade fried chick'n bites smothered in Buffalo sauce, with celery and blu cheez dressing from Plant Bliss.

Come in before they're gone, or order for pickup or delivery: order.toasttab.com/online/red-e... 3/3

Buffalo Chick'n Wrap - Buffalo popcorn chick'n bites with arugula and vegan blu cheez dressing from Plant Bliss—a worker co-op producer of amazing vegan mayor & sauces, based here in Baltimore 2/3

The world is on fire, but at least we've got some vegan restaurant week specials....

Cheezsteak Nachos - Fresh fried tortilla chips with fried seitan, cheez sauce, pico de gallo, and cilantro crema. 1/3

How a Maryland Farm Became a Federal Detention Warehouse A family land trust, a vacant warehouse, and $215 million in federal contracts trace the twenty-year path of a Maryland field to an ICE detention facility.

Your long read for the week. We reviewed 20 years' worth of property records, permits, county council meeting minutes, assessor data, business records, land plats — and more — to track how a derelict Western Maryland farm became the site of an emerging ICE concentration camp.

Very saddened by the sudden passing of my Baltimore Beat colleague Logan Hullinger, a terrific reporter, tireless harm reduction advocate, and standup community member. He would have turned 30 tomorrow. I enjoyed getting to know Logan, and hoped we would collaborate on many more assignments.

“Anovaeon, based at a residential address in San Antonio, was added in October 2025 to WEXMAC TITUS, a DoD contracting vehicle…originally created to allow rapid contractor deployment in response to international disasters, bypassing the traditional federal bidding process.”

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Happy Saturday! Here's the Noemi author events and book signings scheduled for today, including SPECIAL EVENT collaborative off-site reading at @redemmas.org tonight at 8PM!

Every level of our space is wheelchair accessible. Events can get crowded but we are always ready to help make sure there is room for people who need it.

Started #AWP26 with breakfast and coffee @redemmas.org, where they @livesinpages.bsky.social’s book was on display.

AWP26 Offsite Event: Indie Press Happy Hour at Red Emma's with Two Lines Press, Dorothy, a publishing project, and Deep Vellum Decenter the Anglophone universe! Come together for drinks and readings from award-winning translators.

Today! Join our Indie Press Happy Hour at @redemmas.org in Baltimore with @twolinespress.com, @dorothyproject.bsky.social, and @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, with readings by translators Fatemeh Shams, Lily Meyer and Alex Niemi. Enjoy a drink on us if you RSVP! Open to #AWP26 attendees & the public!

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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A reader in a crowded cafe

A spread of vegan food for guests and people breaking their fast

Kicking off our first night of #AWP26 with a reading assembled by @miznaarabart.bsky.social raising money to fund mutual aid in Sudan (if you wish you were here you can donate online: www.justgiving.com/page/writers...)

Haymarket presents "Poetry for Changing the World" Join Haymarket poets Cortney Lamar Charleston, Golden, Maya Salameh, and Daniella Toosie-Watson for an AWP Offsite reading in collaboration with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

Baltimore!

Poetry for Changing the World

Join us for an AWP off-site event with readings from Maya Salameh, Golden, @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social, @toosiewatson.bsky.social, Zeke Galigiuri, and C. Fausto Cabrera at @redemmas.org

Friday, March 6th at 6:00 pm

RSVP to attend:

Lisa Siraganian presents "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots" Should nonhumans have rights in law and politics?

Join @lsiraganian.bsky.social at @redemmas.org on Tuesday, March 24th 2026 for a discussion of The Problem of Personhood!

Catch our Dodge editors at AWP!

The Dodge Associate Translation Editor Kristin Dykstra presents Poetry in Translation: Sound & Musicality Around the World, Friday, Mar 06, 2026, 10:35–11:50 am EDT. She'll also be offsite @ Red Emma's Saturday, Mar 07, 2026 5:30-7:30 pm EST!

People Over Papers - Report ICE Activity Report and track ICE activity in your community. A community-driven platform to document immigration enforcement.

MARYLAND — If you see ICE or CBP activity in your area, report it here. We're getting reports now of ICE staging in Timonium and Owings Mills, but it's more useful if the information is consolidated and accessible to all and not reliant on us passing it along!

What to Check Out in Literary Baltimore While You’re in Town For AWP Baltimore was dubbed “The City That Reads” in 1988, when newly elected Mayor Kurt Schmoke declared his intention to boost literacy in his inaugural address. The slogan was plastered on benches in t…

From Red Emma’s to Edgar Allan Poe, here’s your literary guide to Baltimore for AWP!

If you are coming to Baltimore for #AWP26 you should know that we have:

1) a kickass two story radical bookstore
2) a worker owned vegan restaurant, coffee shop, and bar
3) a packed schedule of evening offsite events with 20 presses and 100+ authors redemmas.org/awp/

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Image announcing Two Lines Press and the Center for The Art of Translation at AWP 2026, March 4-7, featuring three book covers of titles published by Two Lines Press. Find us at booth #1145.

Graphic featuring Fatemeh Shams, Lily Meyer, and Alex Niemi, participants of our AWP off-site event at Red Emma's Bookstore in Baltimore, MD. The event will be held Thursday, March 5, 5:30pm EST.

Meet us at #AWP26! Stop by booth #1145 and get 20% off all our @twolinespress.com books! + Join our Indie Press Happy Hour on Thursday, 3/5 at @redemmas.org with Two Lines Press, @dorothyproject.bsky.social, and @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social. Enjoy a drink on us if you RSVP! buff.ly/ksjjRNd

Carol J. Adams presents "The Sexual Politics of Meat" in conversation w/ Brenda Sanders First published in 1990, Carol J. Adams' revolutionary work has engaged, enraged, inspired and challenged readers with its exploration of the interplay between society's ingrained cultural misogyny an...

If you are near Baltimore on March 12, come and join the inimitable Brenda Sanders and me as we talk about "The Sexual Politics of Meat" and much more! See you at Red Emma's at 7 p.m. They've got great vegan food, too!
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First ICE Vehicles Arrive at Williamsport Detention Warehouse Photos obtained by Project Salt Box show 53 unmarked government trucks and SUVs staged behind the newly-purchased facility.

More vehicles are expected to arrive from Minnesota in the coming days, according to a source familiar with the operation.

If you like your journalism without spectacle or outrage, this one is for you: Read @baltimorebeat.bsky.social on how city organizers are tapping into Baltimore’s rich legacy of radical printmaking to media censorship and government surveillance

Absolutely packed house tonight to hear how @projectsaltbox.bsky.social is bringing data into the fight against ICE.

Amazing full-house turnout at @redemmas.org tonight to learn how @projectsaltbox.bsky.social uses public records to expose ICE activity. @adamjst.bsky.social and @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social here with me, too. 👏

ICE Moves Minneapolis Fleet to Williamsport Detention Warehouse As ICE builds out a detention infrastructure across the mid-Atlantic, equipment from its Minneapolis operation is heading to Maryland.

Via @projectsaltbox.bsky.social, who will be giving a talk at the store tonight at 7pm: "As ICE builds out a detention infrastructure across the mid-Atlantic, equipment from its Minneapolis operation is heading to Maryland."

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Regime Change in Iran (Terms And Conditions Apply) The warmongers, once again, get the war they've sought for decades. Trump and Netanyahu leave the hard work to the people they're bombing

While the bombs fall on the regime and its opponents alike, Trump and Netanyahu say that they come as liberators. Only they won't be the ones who do the dirty work. Encouraging the IRGC to sit on its hands and receive 'immunity' is the latest tell that the Iranian people's desires are irrelevant.

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Farewell to William E. Connolly We are very sad to learn of the death of William E. Connolly earlier this week at the age of 88. Connolly was the author of six books with Duke University Press, the subject on an edited collection…

We were very sorry to learn of the death of political theorist William E. Connolly this week. He published six books with us. Here is our appreciation.