Make a Poem Cry is an anthology of poems from one of California\'s high-security prisons brought to us through the creative writing classes of Luis J.
Funded by the Arts for Justice Fund, the project is part of Tia Chucha\'s Centro Cultural\'s \'Trauma to Transformation Program.\'.
Here are voices and viewpoints needed for a just and equitable world for all.
Here\'s redemption in the flesh.
Here\'s restorative/transformative justice in action.
They are imaginings for how to address trouble and crime without punishment, dehumanization, and violence in return.
These are poems, essays, stories, and more mined from the depths of familial, racial, and economic violence.
Hartman have selected work penned from 2016 to 2018.
Rodriguez, who is Tia Chucha Press\'s founding editor, and formerly incarcerated writer Kenneth E.
Rodriguez, sponsored by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts.
Make a Poem Cry is an anthology of poems from one of California\'s high-security prisons brought to us through the creative writing classes of Luis J
