Dear Readers,  Thank you for sticking with us during this long break. With COVID posing a risk to many of our kids and a number of our staff, we are not doing workshops until it is actually safe for...

I picture all of the times she shouted to me outside of the holding cell: “Son, are you there? I left food for you.” As she left, the policemen always made fun of her: “Son of a bitch. Why...

Six years old, him telling me he loved me. But doing what he wanted to me Growing up with nothing, Feeling like nothing, I was lost as a child Not having nobody by my side Taking care of myself....

I feel pain. I’ve been lied to. I think about the past every night. I’m locked up in a cell. I can’t go outside. Girls nowadays just lie. I’m going through hell I feel like I want to cry...

When it’s a battle between books and bullets, which one do you choose? A life of success or a life that you might lose? It’s easy to say, but hard to prove That you will make the right decision...

If I could make the perfect choice There was no stuck within my voice I guess then maybe I would know what to write I’m not sure at the moment What is secure And what is broken And I...