NPR: A prison art show at Lincoln’s Cottage critiques presidents’ penal law past
2021, when the thread of an idea began to form.
He was inspired by Amanda Gorman, who took the podium and read her poem The Hill We Climb, which says, in part:
“We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what ‘just’ is isn’t always justice. …”
It was then that he really started thinking, Kivett told NPR.
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