POETRY
The Poetry Gallery includes poetry entries and winners from our detention center writing contests as well as our poetry programs with our other partners. We hope you find their stories inspiring, truthful, thoughtful and sometimes funny!
Each artist whose work is posted on our site has signed a Heard media release or verbally given permission for the work to be posted on this site and shared via our social media platforms.
LOST part 2
The many directions "lost" can take you, from another Friends of Guest House resident. So many of...
LOST
"I'm lost. No one will find me. I'm scared and lonely." Poetry is so powerful. And so real. From...
A Place Called the PJs
Three things we love Anna Thomas's poem "A Place Called the PJs": Her shy, adorable smile Fried...
Victory
Victory Marlan Barrington Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing contest, August 2019
Haiku
Haiku Landry Bryant Heard/Arlington County Detention Center writing contest, August 2019
Transgender Woman-Prisoner
Transgender Woman-Prisoner Sebastian Billingslea Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing...
The Unknown
The Unknown Jumiya Arleen Crump Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing contest, August...
Sweet Little Home
We love this sweet little poem from Anna Thomas of Friends of Guest House! 🙂 Sweet Little Home...
The Choice Is Yours
The Choice Is Yours Jumiya Arleen Crump Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing contest,...
The Branded Inmate
Sebastian Billingslea, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility writing contest, August 2019
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