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| D.C.-Based Writing Workshop For Incarcerated Youth Expands Across The Country |
| By dcist.com- Arielle Milkman |
| Published: 07/21/2015 |
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Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop has supported hundreds of incarcerated D.C. youth—and now, thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Aspen Institute, the organization is expanding to four new cities. Youth participating in the program meet for a weekly book club and write poetry. Free Minds staffers then bring those writings to monthly Write Nights where community members and volunteers respond to the inmates' poetry. Poetry is a loose term, co-founder Kelli Taylor said, to describe the gamut of free creativity that the participants explore in their work. “It’s just writing—the whole point is that there’s no rules … and to get people to tell their stories,” Taylor said. “If people tell their stories they see how they’re more alike than different" It is this common ground that produces an effect Taylor describes as magic. For the incarcerated youth with whom the organization works, being heard is the first step. Read More. |
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