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Freedom Reads' March Newsletter dropped today 📩 Hear from Founder & CEO Dwayne Betts on commemorating the 19th anniversary of his release date by returning to the VA prison system w/ libraries & performances. ➕ an update on the #InsideLiteraryPrize ➡️ api.neonemails.com/emails/content…

The Freedom Reads team kicked off the 1st leg of the #InsideLiteraryPrize tour yesterday in Arizona 📚

This is what we do! I write this, or X this, or tweet this, after leaving a women's prison in Phoenix. I'm so tired of people telling me how worried about me they are. I went to prison at 16 years old and raised millions of dollars to go back inside and do.

Yesterday, at Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Colorado, the Freedom Reads team opened 18 additional Freedom Libraries, ensuring every incarcerated individual and staff member at the prison has access to a Freedom Library 📚

“What does it mean to make prison a part of the fabric of American literary life?” Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Dwayne Betts spoke w/ Alissa Greenberg for Poets & Writers about the #InsideLiteraryPrize, & what it means for the literary world. pw.org/content/prize_…

The Freedom Reads team visited three AZ DEPT OF CORRECTIONS, REHABILITATION & REENTRY prisons during leg one of the #InsideLiteraryPrize tour last month 📚 Learn more about the inaugural Prize, launched by Freedom Reads, National Book Foundation, and Center for Justice Innovation, with support from Lori Feathers ➡️ freedomreads.org/showing-up/ins…

.Randall Horton, professor of English at #UNewHaven, read to a group of incarcerated women from his book #289-128 as part of a nonprofit initiative called "Freedom Reads." (via FOX 9) bit.ly/3WrXOoX

ICYMI: Earlier this month, the Freedom Reads team traveled to Minnesota for leg 2 of the #InsideLiteraryPrize (ILP) tour 📚

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To anyone struggling in this minute, on this day, during this week, or earlier this year – you belong here. Don’t give up, we’re here for you. 💙 Artwork by @ jag.ink (on Instagram)

Our deepest condolences to the family, loved ones, and all those affected by the passing of Peter Carmichael. Dr. Carmichael was a prolific scholar and the director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. (1/2)

My friend and colleague Steven Parkhurst came home after doing seven days shy of 30 years. Freedom Reads was his first gig. And he painted this beautiful portrait of a man floating on the books that save him.

I can't believe I didn't share this lovely essay written by David Perez, Jr. He writes about Celebrating Pride and the penitentiary. Writes about how "who are you married to" became the question that led him to a different kind of bravery. Read it! freedomreads.org/news/blog/cele…

Word of the day is ‘kuchisabishii’, from Japanese: boredom eating, or the making of frequent visits to the fridge in the hope of finding something new to munch on. Its literal translation is ‘lonely mouth’.

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The Freedom Reads team is excited to welcome Alex Duran, Gara LaMarche, Steve Levitt, Scott Semple, and Bryan Stevenson to our Board of Directors! freedomreads.org/news/press-rel…

As Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Dwayne Betts said, "We are extremely fortunate to have such talent onboard to help guide Freedom Reads as we work to achieve our vision of a Freedom Library in every cellblock in every adult and youth prison in the nation.”

WHAT A FUCKING KICK!?!?!? 61 YARD GAME WINNING FIELD GOAL TYLER FUCKING BASS