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Advanced copies of the 7th volume of student writing, entitled Evidence, have begun to circulate. The poems and art therein are culled from approximately three years of work by students in Free Write workshops, and do not represent all that can be said, or even half of what you ought to hear and see from these young people. Poet and author Reginald Dwayne Betts wrote in the introduction to Evidence,
“In determining what can be admitted, the judge, relying on the rules of evidence, determines when the story begins. This is the kind of power that alters lives forever, cabining all that matters in a person’s life to the brief time before or after some tragedy occurred, as if their childhood, their future, should not factor into what we imagine as possible, as needed Mitigating Evidence is the place that subverts this practice.”
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