The Beat Within Feed The Beat Within - A weekly publication of writing and art from the inside http://www.thebeatwithin.org Our latest issue Volume 17.19/20 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Fri, 18 May 2012 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note For issue 17.19/20, we are going to try out a new way of printing The Beat, in two volumes – Volume A and B. Both Volume A and B will have the SAME The Editorial Note, Pieces of the Week (POW), Co Pieces of the Week (CoPOW), The Beat Without (BWO), and any Features of the Week. This means that it will be an EXTRA honor for a piece to be nominated for POW or CoPOW because it will appear in both volumes and be read nationally.

As for the Standout section, the programs will be spilt into the two volumes as follows:

Volume A will be predominantly the Bay Area which will have writing from: San Francisco, Marin, Solano, Alameda, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara.

Volume B will have writing from Fresno, Monterey, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside and states outside of California such as writing from: Portland, Alabama, Washington DC, Hawaii, Dallas, Georgia and New Mexico.

We are hoping that this new format, though a work in progress, will save The Beat some money in printing because the issues will be smaller. It will also give The Beat Without (BWO) section a chance to have a little more meat to it and allow for more space for art--which we know many of you have been asking for. http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Fri, 18 May 2012 11:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 17.17/18 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Wed, 02 May 2012 11:00:00 PST A couple of post from our Spring 2012 intern, Autumn Darbrow! I fell in love really hard when I was 19 with a guy who, at the time, I thought was the greatest person. He had two kids to another woman and wasn't really doing much with his life, but I looked past all that. He was really good looking, could play music, was artistic, covered in tattoos, and he was the biggest sweetheart I'd ever met. He made me feel like I was loved more than any other woman in the history of man kind. So when he called me out of the blue while I was working to tell me that he wanted to break up and never wanted to see me again. I was devastated. http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Wed, 02 May 2012 11:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 17.15/16 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note To be frank, this is some of the most heartfelt writing to come out of The Beat Within in sometime. Definitely a moving issue. Thank you all for taking the time to participate in our writing workshops, or for some of you, we appreciate you taking the time to write us your letters and stories from the faraway institutions we have never set foot in, though our nationally distributed publication surely has found it's way to your cell, dorm and/or unit. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, your stories, and a part of you with the whole Beat community. Your words are priceless! http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Thr, 05 Apr 2012 11:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 17.13/14 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Thr, 05 Apr 2012 11:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 17.11/12 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note Greetings Beat editorial note readers! Welcome to double issue, 17.11/12. There is so much to absorb in this week's issue, and there is so much to tell you in regards to what's going on with the program in general. We'll save our news for another time, given we have a treat for you... This week, our editorial note comes from one of our in-office interns, Autumn. http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 17.09/10 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 17.07/08 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note This week we have a very special guest writing our Editorial Note, Darcy Durham who is visiting the San Francisco office from St. Louis, Missouri. Darcy hopes to begin Beat workshops in St. Louis so she came to check out how we run things! Please take a moment to read Darcy's words. http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 17.05/06 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note Welcome back Beat editorial note readers. We are thrilled to bring you our latest installment of writings that cover a huge chunk of California and beyond. Most of it comes out of the weekly workshops, for issue 17.05 and 17.06. In a few short moments, we'll fill you in on the topics/writing prompts that we discussed in those workshops. We also are really digging the latest batch of writings way in the back of this issue, or shall we say the real backbone of this publication, The BWO! This editor was left speechless by the great installment that is featured in this knock-out of an issue. We also encourage you to read Maria's courageous piece, "Twisted," truly cautionary and horrific. http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:00:00 PST Our new redesign Archives page! Here you can download our publications in Portable Document Format (PDF) from as far back as 2008. Enjoy! http://www.beatwithin.org/archives Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note Greetings Beat editorial note readers! We are thrilled to be back with a host of great writings from our many contributors who have showered this latest issue (17.03 and 17.04) with plenty of their truths, as they either take on one of our prompts from the writing workshops, or have come up with their own words and wisdom on their own subjects that they felt the need to share with The Beat readership. http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 17.03/04 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PST The first issue of the year! Volume 17.01/02 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Thr, 12 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note Welcome to the first issue of 2012. It is with great honor to given this platform to INga BUchbinder, who has played such an important role the last six months. We are thrilled about the new year and all the possibilities. With that said, we wish all you readers a wonderful new year, and here is The Beat's Program Director with the first editorial note of the New Year. Take it away Inga! http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Thr, 12 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note Can you believe this friends? What you have in your hands is our year-end-double-issue, 16.49/50. We are thrilled to give you readers our 50th issue of this year, completing our 16th season of writing and art from inside juvenile hall and beyond! Who would have thought that we would have hit this magical number, especially this year, when back in March, there was uncertainty in what direction The Beat Within would go. Who would have thought we would rebirth the program and continue the good fight in giving a voice to our many, many contributors, who otherwise would not have such a forum to share and teach their truths with one another. http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PST Our last issue of the year! Volume 16.49/50 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note Greetings Beat editorial note readers! This week we not only feature the stellar double issue (16.47/48) writings from our various workshops, and top notch BWO contributors from all over the USA, but we have new contributors, that will be introduced by our good friend and colleague Karen Hunt, who has so kindly agreed to write the editor's note. Without further ado... http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 16.47/48 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note Given the excitement around The Beat Within being honored by the SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists), Northern California Chapter tonight, at an awards dinner in downtown San Francisco, we feel it is our obligation to fill you a bit more about the award, and of course give some thanks where the thanks are due!

On Tuesday, The Beat Within was honored with one of the SPJ's highest honors, "The Silver Heart" award, for giving voice to the voiceless. You could not ask for a more appropriate award.

 http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:00:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 16.45/46 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:00:00 PST Editor's Note Welcome to our TRIPLE issue of The Beat Within. As we are approaching the end of the year we needed to make sure all of your writing got into the last few issues we have left before the holi-daze takes us into the New Year. But before we get into all of the youth writing, we have Lisa Santoya as our editorial note writer this week. Lisa is a facilitator at our workshops in Bernalillo County, New Mexico where she also works as a Youth Program Transport Officer in the juvenile hall. Take it away, Lisa! http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:30:00 PST Our latest issue Volume 16.42/43/44 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:00:00 PST We now have a Press & Achievements Drop by to see what we have achieved! http://www.beatwithin.org/press.html Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:00:00 PST Donation page is live! Please feel free to support us anyway you can. From a box of pencil to a box of paper, anything helps! http://www.beatwithin.org/donation.html Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:00:00 PST PPOTR Dispatch #2: Interview with David Inocencio, Director of The Beat Within Thanks to our mutual friend, photographer Joe Rodriguez, I had the privilege to meet up with and be interviewed by Peter Brook, as part of his 12-week journalism road-trip through America. http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:00:00 PST We now have a blog page! Hey all you Beat enthusiasts! Welcome to The Beat Blog where we will regularly update with recent news about how we're doing, links we think you might want to check out and other information we think you should know! Check back regularly to see what's going on in The Beat office! http://www.beatwithin.org/blog.html Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:00:00 PST A site worth checking out Voices Behind Walls is a creative writing workshop that has taken place in juvenile detention centers in El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico. The workshop consists of writing poetry and the study of literary authors/poets/artist, chess, music (specifically Hip Hop, Soul, Jazz and other genres), beat production, radio broadcasting, film and vocal/audio recording. http://www.voicesbehindwalls.org/ Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:00:00 PST Subscribe to our Newsletter Visit our site and enter your email in the subscription box and that's it! http://www.beatwithin.org Our new redesign website! Welcome to The Beat Within's new website! On our new site, you will still find our archives of The Beat publication in PDF format, including older and more recent issues. In addition, you can find information on how to volunteer with our organization, data about the youth we work with, and our weekly workshop topics.

Our site will be a continuous work in progress and we will be constantly updating and adding to it, so check back often!

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 http://www.beatwithin.org Our latest issue Volume 16.40/41 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:00:00 PST Volume 16.38/39 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:00:00 PST Volume 16.36/37 Download the PDF here. http://www.beatwithin.org Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:00:00 PST