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.
I Cry
By Anthony Talbert First place, poetry, Heard/Alexandria Detention Center writing contest, August...
More of My Race
Slangston Jeewlz Poetry, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility/OAR writing contest, August 2021
The Last Bus
by Rodney Johnson Poetry, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility/OAR writing contest, August...
My Family is the Best
Matthew Hill Poetry, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility/OAR writing contest, August 2021
Reality
Generation, Incarceration – Anticipation
by Horace Williams Poetry, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility/OAR writing contest, August...
My Rose
Let Me Dream
Hope
by Betsy Stewart Poetry, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility/OAR writing contest, August...