Oklahoma’s Incarcerated women “find our voices” through Poetic Justice
The Black Wall Street Times wrote an article highlighting our Distance Learning program and the need for more volunteers during our next writing session.
When The Arts Go Dark Inside Correctional Facilities, Poetic Justice Goes Old School
How to adapt when you cannot go digital? Poetry nonprofit still aims to teach and heal incarcerated women through 'restorative writing'
When closures related to the coronavirus pandemic sent educators and artists into a flurry of online and distance learning practices and tools, many teachers and their students didn't have that luxury, especially those working with incarcerated individuals.
A Poetic Justice Exhibit Now at ahha: "Not a Number"
It's well-known that Oklahoma has the highest rate of female incarceration in the US. On this edition of StudioTulsa, we profile Poetic Justice, an important nonprofit that, per its website, aims to "reveal the individuality and experiences of the women who inhabit [our] state's prisons.
Poetic Justice Participants Featured in Awst Press
An excerpt from Hope, By Erica Bonner
“It’s only 7 a.m. when I walk out of the building with early education and work line. I look up to see the dark clouds in the distance. They look like soft mountains. The air is warm and fresh with the scent of rain and earth. My favorite.
“Maybe I didn’t need to put on thermals after all,” I think to myself.
On the ramp to the cafeteria, we watch in anticipation. Streaks of lightning dance across the sky.
“This is beautiful,” someone says.”