Words are the only things that prisoners possess that cannot be taken from them. The greater our ability to use them, the greater our ability to retain and rebuild our humanity. The Indiana Prison Writers Workshop provided a place to be vulnerable and to connect with other human beings. It was one of the very few places in my twenty-year incarceration where I felt seen, heard, and valued. This program intellectually and emotionally resuscitates broken people; it reinvigorated me and motivated me to publish my first book. Thank you so much for this life-giving program.
