JUST YELL/ POETRY as SELF DEFENSE

To create evocative dialogues and spaces that encourage interaction, Pope incorporates excerpts of poetry from Chicago school youth, often collaborating with students on live, site-specific initiatives. Working with Pope Project& engaged Just Yell around the city and with institutions. Then, In collaboration with Nathan Diamond, young poets from Chicago and Washington DC, Project& and Pope were invited to take JUST YELL/POETRY as SELF DEFENSE to The White House in honor of 2015’s National Juvenile Justice Awareness Month for a day-long multi-disciplinary creative engagement. Pope and Diamond designed a daylong event titled Justice and Opportunity: The Power of the Arts: A Focus on Juvenile Justice.