The Poet’s Liberation Front is a literary salon examining and repositioning the political function of the poet for current times.

For the March 2026 salon, the theme will be archiving the ungovernable: how we capture guerrilla organising work within our radical imagination, and what we do with archives of such to stimulate further action. There are myriad ways that historical social movements and political activists have bypassed censorship through creative means or outmanoeuvred ‘craft’ to mass circulate strategic thinking. From Diane di Prima’s collection Revolutionary Letters, based on her time organising within anarchist community-action groups, to Spanish communist poet Marcos Ana smuggling poems out of Franco’s prisons through the memory of other incarcerated men.

Poet, organiser and host of PLF, lisa minerva luxx, will be joined by Black feminist theorist and writer, Lola Olufemi. They will each read work relating to the theme then lead an open discussion with attendees about the political now.

Poet’s Liberation Front encourages conversations between writers and organisers to better activate the role of authorship in times of uprising.

This event is created and hosted by lisa minerva luxx in partnership with Shubbak Festival and generously supported by Arts Council England.

Doors open at 6:45 pm.

Maqqam Bookstore will have a bookstall for the evening.