• Oct 6, 2021

Congratulations, MacArthur Fellows!

Three of the 2021 MacArthur Fellows who received this year's "Genius Award" supported incarcerated YPEI students in 2020 by participating in YPEI correspondence programming during the pandemic:

  • Music Critic, Essayist, and Poet Hanif Abdurraqib participated in the YPEI Creative Writing Workshop, editing and annotating a unit of readings and prompts for incarcerated YPEI students (accessible here);

  • Dwayne Betts supported students and programming, sending books to each incarcerated YPEI student through YPEI's partnership with Freedom Reads, including his book FELON: POEMS; and

  • Art Historian and Curator Nicole Fleetwood sent copies of her "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" to each YPEI student and nurtured their responses to her ground-breaking work.

Congratulations to the Fellows, and thank you for supporting the work of college in prison.