To Prisoners by Gwendolyn Brooks

Season 1

Explore Gwendolyn Brooks's poem with John McCain, Anna Deavere Smith, and other guests.

This episode brings together a group of interpreters who learned in prison to hear poetry’s “call.” Learn from Senator John McCain, playwright and activist Anna Deavere Smith, poets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Li-Young Lee, and four exonerated prisoners about poetry’s special resonance for those behind bars.