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30 Billboards for 30 Years!

InsideOut is marking its 30th anniversary with a citywide billboard campaign featuring poetry by Detroit youth.

Inside Out Poetry Program Poet Leaders

Happy Birthday, InsideOut!

I’m super excited to announce that 2025 is our 30th Anniversary year – that’s right, InsideOut Literary Arts has been serving Detroit youth with high quality creative writing programming for three decades! From our start in a handful of high schools to serving over three…
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Crain’s Detroit: “If I Wake Up In Detroit 25 Years In The Future”

“Sixteen-year-old Charisma Holly of Detroit helped kick off Detroit Homecoming with a performance of the following poem. The theme of this year’s Homecoming was ‘Detroit 2050,’ and we thought the poem painted such a vivid picture of Detroit’s history and where it is — or could be — heading, we wanted to share it with a wider audience here.” — Crain’s Detroit Business 

Op-Ed: Poetry, creative writing and just listening can combat teen mental health risks 

Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen writes about showing up for teens in an Op-Ed for the Detroit Free Press.

FOX 2: InsideOut nonprofit in Detroit gets $2M donation

Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen and School Programs Manager Shawntai Brown speak with Fox 2 about the impact of MacKenzie Scott’s transformational gift.

InsideOut Receives $2 Million Donation from MacKenzie Scott

There are few moments in a nonprofit organization’s life that are truly transformative. InsideOut Literary Arts is about to experience one.

The Metro: Annual Detroit Youth Poetry Con returns March 9

Executive Director Suma Karaman Rosen had the opportunity to talk about the Detroit Youth Poetry Con and what it means for teens across the area on WDET 101.9FM. Take a listen!

InsideOut student poet King reads at a podium against a backdrop of other students as sun sets at If the River Could Sing event in September 2023.

InsideOut Student Wins $25k Pistons Scholarship

InsideOut student poet King Bethel wrote a spoken word piece that earned him a $25,000 scholarship from the Detroit Pistons Foundation.

Alandra Chuney-Jackson

Alandra Chuney-Jackson is an InsideOut alumni, the Co-Executive Director of the Youth Development Resource Center (YDRC) in Detroit, and the founder of the Sisters’ Couch – an organization dedicated to de-stigmatizing mental health for Black women.