Dr. Randall Horton on the Collaborative Radical Reversal Project, Mass Incarceration, Reformation and Justice

Published: April 2, 2023, 5 a.m.

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Cover Image by Diane Allford

To learn more, please visit the sites for Randall Horton and Radical Reversal.

Show Notes:

00:00 Dr. Randall Horton\\u2019s work in poetry

02:00 Dr. Horton\\u2019s work as poet/writer, professor of English at University of New Haven, system-impacted\\xa0

03:10 Chicago State\\u2019s MFA program

03:20 Definition of Place by Horton

03:30 PhD in Poetry and Poetics from SUNY Albany

04:20 poetry avant-garde band Heros of Gang Leaders

05:00 Creative Capital proposal to put creative space in the carceral state

07:00 Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston, Massachusetts

07:30 Radical Reversal\\xa0

08:30 pilot program in Burmingham, AL - Jefferson County Youth Detention Center\\xa0

8:55 Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop with Jennifer Bowen-Hicks

9:00 Boston\\u2019s Writers Without Margins with Cheryl Buchanan\\xa0

10:15 Jefferson County Youth Detention Center Director Monique Greer

17:20 workshops in Jefferson County Youth Detention Center

18:50\\xa0 Little K - what if you don\\u2019t know no beautiful
21:00 Little E

22:10 Ain\\u2019t No Love In the Streets\\xa0

26:20 art as a guide\\xa0

28:00 partnering with Greer to continue pilot program

31:30 Radical Reversal\\u2019s space to stay in place going forward

32:30 Minnesota Department of Correction\\u2019s unit to have four recording booths

34:00 Radical Reading Series

34:30 Artist Masego

36:50 follow up work with individuals in the facility\\xa0

37:00 poem entitled Imagine\\xa0

41:00 collaboration with facility staff

42:00 The Road Less Traveled

46:30 poem entitled To Live and Die in Burmingham, Alabama published in London

49:00\\xa0 inspired by Nietzsche\\u2019s 1887 On the Genealogy of Morality\\xa0

49:40 going after humanity and a moral compass

51:00 legacy created with his work and Radical Reversal\\xa0


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\\xa9 Stephanie Drawdy [2024]

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