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Free Minds Poets Present at Conference: “Understanding and Responding to Violence”
On November 9, 2010, nearly 400 District court judges, prosecutors, court personnel, and community leaders gathered at the Washington Convention Center to examine issues of violence in the city. When…
Read MoreFormer Sudanese Child Soldier visits Free Minds
Read about it at The Washington Post! On October 4th, international hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal visited Free Minds members in the DC Jail as our book club’s special guest author.…
Read MoreBest-selling Author Jonathan Franzen Visits Book Club at DC Jail
Award-winning author Jonathan Franzen visited the DC Jail last month for a special Book Club session with the Free Minds members as part of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s Writers in Schools program. Prepared…
Read MoreEtan Thomas Leads Series of Writing Workshops
“They brought a tall man to my cell!” one Free Minds member told his mother on the phone, so excited he momentarily forgot the name of his visitor. “We talked…
Read MoreThe Community Hears Free Minds Poets! Hear Us Out! 2009
Nearly 500 people came to downtown Washington, DC to hear the words of incarcerated youth at the 6th Annual Free Minds Poetry Reading. The 6th & I Historic Synagogue was…
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