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They Called Me 299-359
Shout Mouse Press and Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop
Poetry/Essays, 2020
Cover Art by Ricardo Levins Morales
About this book from Shout Mouse Press:
* Top Ten Books for 2022 In The Margins Book Award
They Called Me 299-359 is an anthology of poetry and essays written, edited, and compiled by incarcerated youth who are Free Minds Book Club members, held both at the DC Jail and in adult federal facilities across the country. Through moving personal testimony, these young writers explore the challenges and pain of incarceration as well as family, forgiveness, redemption, and dreams. Their book is used as a tool for violence prevention and healing in Free Minds’s youth violence prevention initiative “On the Same Page,” and is also taught as part of college curricula at several universities. This 10th-anniversary edition includes updated forewords from Free Minds poet ambassadors as well as from award-winning formerly incarcerated poet Reginald Dwayne Betts.
