Poetic Justice

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Poetic Justice documentary showings are:
Thursday, June 11 @5:00 pm
Sunday, Jun 14 @4:00 pm
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In Session 3: Change, creativity becomes a tool for reflection, healing, and self-expression.
Over the course of 10 weeks, participants develop personal passion projects using painting, weaving, collage, scrapbooking, dream catchers, and more. Each project is shaped by the interests, experiences, and creativity of the individual creating it.
These photos offer a glimpse into the process—the gathering of materials, the careful planning, the experimentation, and the work taking shape. While the final pieces are still in progress, the creativity and intention behind them are already shining through.
Every piece is different.
Every story is personal.
Every creation carries meaning.
We’re excited to share the completed projects soon. For now, here’s a look at the journey. 💜

In June 2024, Poetic Justice partnered with the national nonprofit Prison Journalism Project to bring journalism workshops to Eddie Warrior and Mabel Bassett Correctional Centers in Oklahoma.
Over 11 weeks, participants received training and support as they created community newspapers published within each facility.
As Michelle McCutchan, Poetic Justice facilitator and editor of The Warrior Standard, shared with the Tulsa World:
“Poetic Justice focuses on the healing of the individual and on the expression of finding and empowering yourself… But what the newspaper does is it brings everybody else in the community into that. It takes the shame away from being in prison, and the newspaper changes the paradigm and the narrative.”
These newspapers create space for incarcerated people to document their own stories, build community, and shift how prison is understood from the inside.
The hope is that this pilot cohort will serve as a national model for similar programs in correctional facilities across the country.