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To learn more, please visit the sites for Randall Horton and Radical Reversal.

Show Notes:

00:00 Dr. Randall Horton’s work in poetry

02:00 Dr. Horton’s work as poet/writer, professor of English at University of New Haven, system-impacted 

03:10 Chicago State’s MFA program

03:20 Definition of Place by Horton

03:30 PhD in Poetry and Poetics from SUNY Albany

04:20 poetry avant-garde band Heros of Gang Leaders

05:00 Creative Capital proposal to put creative space in the carceral state

07:00 Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston, Massachusetts

07:30 Radical Reversal 

08:30 pilot program in Burmingham, AL - Jefferson County Youth Detention Center 

8:55 Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop with Jennifer Bowen-Hicks

9:00 Boston’s Writers Without Margins with Cheryl Buchanan 

10:15 Jefferson County Youth Detention Center Director Monique Greer

17:20 workshops in Jefferson County Youth Detention Center

18:50  Little K - what if you don’t know no beautiful
21:00 Little E

22:10 Ain’t No Love In the Streets 

26:20 art as a guide 

28:00 partnering with Greer to continue pilot program

31:30 Radical Reversal’s space to stay in place going forward

32:30 Minnesota Department of Correction’s unit to have four recording booths

34:00 Radical Reading Series

34:30 Artist Masego

36:50 follow up work with individuals in the facility 

37:00 poem entitled Imagine 

41:00 collaboration with facility staff

42:00 The Road Less Traveled

46:30 poem entitled To Live and Die in Burmingham, Alabama published in London

49:00  inspired by Nietzsche’s 1887 On the Genealogy of Morality 

49:40 going after humanity and a moral compass

51:00 legacy created with his work and Radical Reversal 

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