Seeking redemption through poetry
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May 18, 2016
POETRY IN PRISON – With inmates at the state’s Monroe Correctional Complex on stage behind them, actor Carter Rodriguez and poet Daemond Arrindell, who will be performing in La Conner this weekend during the Skagit River Poetry Festival, led prisoners in a soul-bearing theatrical production at the prison on Saturday. – Photo by Mark Chandler
It's 8:30 a.m. on Saturday at the Monroe Correctional Complex, one of Washington state’s largest prisons. Men in khaki pants and white t-shirts at the front of a large visiting space with white walls and a painted mural wait to begin a performance of their own written work.
More men wearing khaki and white with green name badges take seats on folding chairs for the first of two showings for the day at the Twin River Unit. A handful of visitors, who have passed through tight security, also take their seats.
Soon Daemond Arrindell, one of the facilitators of Freehold Theater’s Engaged The...
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