How did shelton get started with the workshops

Richard Shelton, a poet and professor at the University of Arizona, has been coming into prisons as a volunteer when a convicted murderer on death row wrote to ask for feedback on his poems.

Explanation:

Richard Shelton, a poet and professor at the University of Arizona, has been coming into prisons as a volunteer when a convicted murderer on death row wrote to ask for feedback on his poems.

They worked in the visiting room and then he and another inmate asked if Selton could establish a workshop. He went to the Arizona Commission on the Arts and asked them if they would sponsor it

They started in 1974, after I had been working with him for a couple of years.

Reference: Falcón, E. (2019). Teaching in the Prisons: An Interview with Richard Shelton. [online] Poetry Center.

- "schenck v. united states, case in which the u.s. supreme court ruled on march 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the u.s. constitution's first amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.” "

- speech aimed to potentially create danger could be banned.

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