"If These Walls Could Talk: Inside Youth Speak Out" SEASON TWO

From: Susan Stone
Length: 14:58

"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison system. Written and recorded by the authors themselves (under their chosen pen names) in juvenile halls throughout California from Summer, 2010 through January, 2011. They are very pleased to present Season Two. Read the full description.

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Playing: "If These Walls Could Talk: Inside Youth Speak ...
From: Susan Stone

Susanstone_small While in Juvenile Hall, detained and incarcerated youth are invited to participate in writing and conversation workshops. Led by local writers and teachers, these evening sessions are designed to help the youth dig deep and seek insights through writing and drawing into childhoods and teen years so often defeated by aspects of the lives they have lived so far. Their poems and stories draw on deeply personal narratives and testimonials to regret, remorse, hope, and resolve.

In this way, these young men, women, boys and girls in detention can live out loud in a world that often forgets them.

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Piece Description

While in Juvenile Hall, detained and incarcerated youth are invited to participate in writing and conversation workshops. Led by local writers and teachers, these evening sessions are designed to help the youth dig deep and seek insights through writing and drawing into childhoods and teen years so often defeated by aspects of the lives they have lived so far. Their poems and stories draw on deeply personal narratives and testimonials to regret, remorse, hope, and resolve.

In this way, these young men, women, boys and girls in detention can live out loud in a world that often forgets them.