Gold counsels youths to cast their experiences as verse.
For the past three years, Richard has come here to help kids write poetry. It's a simple idea, with low overhead. You think they're confident, assertive, aggressive, but basically they are very, very scared. They are heartbroken. In the classroom, posters of Miles Davis, Che Guevara, and Jimi Hendrix hang on the walls above Richard and Kevin as they work.