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POETIC JUSTICE INCORPORATED - California Arts Council With support from the California Arts Council, Poetic Justice will expand an interconnected series of restorative writing and art classes in collaboration with artists in and outside of women’s prisons, addressing acute needs related to trauma and incarceration. Impact funds will support distance and live series materials and related outreach.
Poetic Justice offers poetry classes and workshops in the following California carceral settings: – CIW: 2 RAC classes/wk for a 1-year cohort, Distance Learning 1-year cohort, and ongoing annual projects – The Children’s Literature Project and Voices on the Inside – CCWF: Distance Learning and Voices on the Inside – Reentry Journal Project (former participants on parole) – Las Colinas (SD Jail): 3 classes/wk (mainline, high security, and psychiatric units) / 7 sessions per year – SD Youth Transitional Center: 1 weekly class / 7 sessions per year – East Mesa Rehabilitation Program – English and Spanish language week-long workshops twice a year Programs Launching in 2026 – CDCR Puerta La Cruz Conservation Camp – Federal Pre-Trial Holding Facility Other PJ Work in California – Transitional Programming Works (TPW) A typical weekly class provides gender-diverse and sensitive access by incorporating mindful breathing, trauma-responsive programming, community support, creative writing, and therapeutic visual arts.
For example, participants might explore aspects of anxiety, worthlessness, shame, etc. through poetry’s grapho-motor process within a trusted community engaged in evidence-based healing because putting language to the unspeakable supports healing from root causes of trauma and PTSD, and provides pathways forward. Whereas abuse, depression, and addiction damage language centers, poetry reactivates them.
In fact research indicates that poetry (rhythm, metaphor, rhyme) activates the right hemisphere. The left brain is responsible for acquisition and expression, but the right brain’s ability to integrate unrelated concepts into comprehensible metaphor with repetition and syncopation can access language pathways damaged by trauma.
Research, including JW Pennebaker’s work, shows “writing about upsetting events improves physical and mental health,” but only by creating safe communities for interoception and embodied agency. The traumatized brain doesn’t remember in logical sequences; trauma memory returns in sensory experiences rooted in the limbic system rather than language centers – this is why poetry is consequential for healing. https://www.
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