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"My walls are small next to yours, yet you all comforted me in the consolation of the spoken word. Break those walls down brick by brick," wrote one audience member, after our Voices Carry event at Elms College last week. Another audience member said, "Thank you for sharing your beautiful words. This week has been difficult, and your work has given me hope and light. We are all in this together." One particular piece that resonated was "Dear Ex-Husband," by Tara McNamara. "'Dear Ex-Husband' was amazing!" an audience member exclaimed. The assembled performers  Reading together  Tara McNamara, center 
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VFI IN THE NewsVFI's Tara McNamara organized the "Breaking Free" poetry reading in Greenfield--read about it in this Greenfield Recorder story.
An excerpt from Voices Carry's performance at Forbes Library is available for viewing on Youtube, here.
VFI writer Daisy Diaz read a poem to open Hampshire Art Museum's exhibition "Made in America: Unfree Labor in an Age of Mass Incarceration." The exhibit runs through March 10. Check out photos in the February 7 post, to the left.
VFI writer Tara McNamara's poem "Dear Ex-Husband" is featured in the October 29, 2016, issue of the Write Angles Journal. See the poem on our Writing& Prompts page.
WWLP's Ashley Kohl interviews VFI board members about upcoming fundraisers for VFI, April 27, 2016.
From the Heart: VFI Poets interviewed in the Greenfield Recorder, February 12, 2016 Hampshire Gazette Reports on VFI Performance at Lander-Grinspoon Academy, February 7, 2016 Interview with VFI Poets on the Bill Newman Show, February 3, 2016 Loud and Clear: VFI at Holyoke Community College, November 18, 2015 Women Share Stories While in Jail, June 18, 2015 Archives
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