Civil Rights Corps

Free DC by William Travance, 2025 Poet-in-Residence, Civil Rights Corps.

Free DC is part of William’s larger poetry collection entitled “Why We Advocate.” Listen to more of his work on CRC’s youtube. You can find the link in our bio.

William is a Playwright-Poet-Orator-Emcee who wields his pen for the purpose of reclaiming his agency, by giving voice to the lives and to the plights of African Americans and other marginalized people of color, while achieving catharsis through self-expression.

He is currently serving a 27-to-life sentence in an Ohio Correctional Facility and uses his time to create and to implement programming he and his comrades need for personal growth and development beyond incarceration.