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OVERVIEW
PONGO PUBLISHING
Writing By Teens In Jail, On The Streets,
Leading Difficult Lives
Since 1992, Richard Gold has volunteered his time with Seattle
teens who are in jail, on the streets, or in other ways leading
difficult lives. He helps the teens to write about themselves,
and often suggests that they begin by speaking from the heart
about who they are as people. In response, perhaps because
of a powerful desire to be understood, the teens often describe
severe
losses that occurred when they were little children,
losses such as the death of a parent, abandonment, neglect,
and abuse.
Richard then publishes the teens' writing in a series of
collections that are poignant and surprising and that offer
a different perspective on a population that is in deep distress
and is also rarely heard. This effort to help young people
express themselves and to publish their work is called the
Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project.
The links below are the collection titles. They will take
you to descriptions of each collection, sample poems from
the collection, and, occasionally, associated reflections
by Richard about the teens' lives and the writing process.
There is also a link to a book order form.
See What Goes On Behind My Masks
contains writing by lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and questioning youth.
(Many of these sexual minority youth are homeless.)
Because I Didnšt Know the True Meaning of Love
contains writing by teens in juvenile detention.
No More Me contains writing by
teens in residential psychiatric treatment.
I Lost My Sense of Protection contains
writing by teens in grief therapy within a juvenile rehabilitation
facility.
What Every Guy Tells Me contains
writing by teens in juvenile detention.
Trapped in the Ghetto & The Other
Piece of Me contains writing by teens in juvenile detention.
I Can't Imagine Myself Any Other Place
contains writing by teens in grief therapy within juvenile
detention.
The House on the Corner II contains
writing by homeless teens and street youth.
The House on the Corner contains
writing by homeless teens and street youth.
Who Will Stay and Hold My Child?
contains writing by parents whose teens are in juvenile
detention.
Book Order Form
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