The Untold Story of the Real Me is a collection of poems written by Young people who were charged and incarcerated as adults at the age of 16 or 17.
Learn more at www.freemindsbookclub.org.
Through creative expression, job readiness training, and violence prevention outreach, these Young poets achieve their education and career goals, and become powerful Voices for change in the community.
Free Minds uses books, creative writing, and peer support to awaken DC youth incarcerated as adults to their own potential.
Already being used in classrooms across the country to start conversations around youth violence and the justice system, The Untold Story of the Real Me provides a new take on the power of one voice to speak truth to pain, to seek redemption and healing.
This collection also features individual profiles of Free Minds members who are home from Prison and serving as Poet Ambassadors in the violence prevention initiative, On the Same Page.
Their work explores themes of parenthood, love, pain, identity, race, and freedom in Voices both raw and powerful.
All poets are members of the Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop; many are currently incarcerated in the DC Jail or federal prison.
The Untold Story of the Real Me is a collection of poems written by Young people who were charged and incarcerated as adults at the age of 16 or 17
