The Poet Speaks: Screening and Panel

Get a first look at The Poet Speaks, followed by a discussion featuring Amanda Eke and Free Minds poets.

Join Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop for a special advance screening of “Verses from the Inside,” an episode from The Poet Speaks Season 2: We Speak What Was, ahead of its broadcast premiere on PBS and Heritage Broadcasting.

A conversation follows the screening with Free Minds poets and host Amanda Eke.

About the Episode
Episode 2, “Verses from the Inside,” follows host Amanda Eke inside a Washington, D.C. correctional facility, where poetry becomes a lifeline, a way to process, reflect, and reclaim a voice in a place designed to take so much of that voice away. The episode then follows Free Minds poets who have carried that practice beyond incarceration and into their lives as artists and advocates.

From inside the walls to life beyond them, Verses from the Inside asks what poetry can make possible when words become a means of survival, connection, and transformation.

About the Series
The Poet Speaks is a documentary-style series hosted by Amanda Eke that explores the power of poetry as a cultural and historical force. Season 2, We Speak What Was, is a six-episode journey through Washington, D.C., where poetry, music, memory, history, and community collide.

Support Free Minds
This event is free and open to all. A donation alone does not reserve a seat. To attend and support Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, select both a free admission ticket and an optional donation.