When I was asked to share poetry written by students in detention at a Juneteenth celebration outside of the Juvenile Detention Center, I hadn’t made the connection between that invitation and a flyer that I’ve received a few weeks before. In both instances I knew that I would participate. Also at both moments, I’d been […]
When I first saw the listing for a poetry mentor in the King County Juvenile Detention Center it was on my university’s career newsletter. I was working on campus as a Conference Assistant at the time and while sitting at the community center’s front desk I thought the volunteer opportunity was a dream come true. […]
Public Viewing of 13TH Documentary and Open Discussion at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Theatre Hosted by B.U.I.L.D. Seattle “The only difference between the people in prison and on the outside, was that I had physical evidence that something went wrong in my life. I had bars, a bed, and a toilet that I had to […]