Thursday, February 12, 6-7 p.m.

Location: Sculpture Court 

Registration requested

Join us for an evening of living Black history! Witness Baltimore’s contemporary griots channel the spirit of Chicory magazine—uncensored, urgent, and unbroken—for Black History Month.
Almost 60 years ago, a literary revolution spilled onto Baltimore’s streets when Chicory magazine became the people’s pulpit: a raw, unfiltered outlet where Black residents transformed grocery lists into manifestos, porch conversations into sonnets, and pain into power. For decades, its pages held the city’s breath. Now, The Chicory Project—a print and digital publication dedicated to showcasing the diverse, dynamic voices of Baltimore—resurrects that radical ethos and has constructed new soapboxes to carry on its legacy. In the Sculpture Court of the Walters Art Museum, featured poets invited by The Chicory Project will stand where marble statues loom and share poems forged in the same fire that birthed Chicory, thus reclaiming space in honor of the voices history has tried to silence.

Some language in this program may not be suitable for all audiences.