Illustrations from the Inside The Beat Within

The Beat Within is a nation-wide writing program for incarcerated youth that is ten years old. "Words not Weapons" is the theme, getting young adults - male and female, of all races - to learn that the power of words and images is stronger than violence. While a couple of volumes of poetry generated by this program have been published. Illustrations from the Inside: The Beat Within focuses on the drawings that these juveniles do, almost entirely in pencil. Remarkable for its execution, compelling in terms of content and chock-full of varied renderings of everything from Homer Simpson to the violent deaths of friends and family, these illustrations humanize these juveniles in a way that the penal system resists.Nevaer, Louis E. V. is the author of 'Illustrations from the Inside The Beat Within', published 2007 under ISBN 9780979048647 and ISBN 0979048648.