This Chicago program connects incarcerated youth to poetry

This Chicago program connects incarcerated youth to poetry

PBS NewsHour

InläsarePBS NewsHour
Längd7 min
Språken
FörlagNewsHour Productions
ISBN9781987108408

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who turned around his life with writing and education after eight and a half years in prison.