Lives Radio Show With Stuart Chittenden

This show's guests are poets, teachers, and community leaders Kathie Klarreich, founder of https://www.exchange-for-change.org/ (Exchange for Change) - a nonprofit teaching writing in prisons - and P. Scott Cunningham, founder and executive director of the https://www.omiami.org/ (O, Miami Poetry Festival), which celebrates Miami, FL through the lens of poetry. Together they host the Florida Prison Poet Laureate initiative. They talk about the importance and impact of writing, both in their own lives and in the context of those incarcerated in the correction facility system, as well as the activities and discoveries created by poetry in the O, Miami Poetry Festival. Kathie Klarreich is the author of “Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Vodou, and Civil Strife in Haiti” and a contributor to two anthologies: “So Spoke the Earth” and “Women, Writing, and Prison.” In 2010 she received a Knight International Journalism Fellowship to train journalists in investigative reporting in Haiti, where sh