An e-mail from A Thousand Kites

Dear Friend,

We are calling on poets, writers, singers, and our artist friends to submit a work to Thousand Kites for our national radio broadcast “Calls From Home.”

We hope to record hundreds of poems to reach the 2.4 million people in our nation’s prisons. Will you help? (please forward this email)

All you have to do is call 877-518-0606

You can submit your poem (or read a prisoner’s poem if you have permission) by calling it into our toll-free line and recording it on our answering machine. Don’t worry if you slip up, we will edit all calls.

Ten years ago when prisoners in our region’s newly opened Supermax facilities wrote us about human rights abuses and racism we responded as artists. Soon we witnessed the effect our effort had on our region’s prisons. Light truly is the best sanitizer.

One of the first poems that came back to us from Wallens Ridge State Prison was a gripping poem called “Grave Prison Yard.” We responded by creating a public performance. Hear “Grave Prison Yards” and other poems on our website.

We are asking you to submit a work on the themes of incarceration, family, the power to endure and anything that would lift the spirits and spark creativity in our thousands of prisoner listeners.

Your work will be added to our website, broadcast on over 200 radio stations as part of Calls from Home and released as part of a CD celebrating our ten years of creativity, radio, and the power of community.

Call: 877-518-0606.

Learn more about this project.

Peace,
Thousand Kites Team
thousandkitesproject@gmail.com
www.thousandkites.org