Category: Editor’s Note

Greetings to our readers, writers, and supporters of The Beat Within! We’re so glad to have you with us, and to present another stellar double issue of writing and artwork by our incarcerated community.  We love when our facilitators share their thoughts on our weekly topics, as it gives us insight into the wide spectrum of experience we bring with us to workshop every day. For this issue, we have our longtime friend and colleague Michael Kroll with us offering his perspective on our our 30.13 topic, “I’m Proud Of…” Please join us in welcoming Michael to our editoral pages! 

Greetings to our Beat Within community near and far! We’re happy to have you with us, and to be promoting your stories, thoughts, and opinions in our one-of-a-kind publication.  For this issue’s editorial note, we have our longtime friend and colleague Omar (OT) joining us, where he reflects on the progress of our world at large and what it takes to keep pushing and striving to reach our fullest potential. We appreciate OT as always for sharing his perspective and experiences with us!  We welcome you readers back to another double-dose edition of the one and only The Beat Within.

Welcome back readers to another incredible double-edition of The Beat Within, where our incarcerated community across the country comes together to share their opinions and experiences on our weekly topics. We’re glad to have you with us, and to share space with you in our pages.  This issue’s editorial note is brought to you by Michael Kroll, AKA Einstein, who encourages us to take the time we need for ourselves to simply just “be,” especially in our fast-paced world where we prioritize production and efficiency over leisure and enjoyment. Please join us in welcoming our longtime friend and colleague, Michael

Hello and welcome to our Beat Within community across the country and beyond! It’s a pleasure to have you with us for this latest issue, where incarcerated youth and adults share their perspectives, dreams, and important messages for the world at the large.  We have our good friend and colleague OT with us for our editorial note, who writes in depth about one of our weekly topics, “My Kind of Weather.” It was such a pleasure getting to know the types of weather that our writers identify with, as it signifies our deeper personality traits and the way we relate

Greetings to our Beat Within readers and writers near and far. We’re grateful to have you with us, and we’re honored to be part of your journey. The writing we encounter on a daily basis at The Beat challenges us to think critically and dream big, and we celebrate your thoughts, experiences, and opinions in each and every magazine.  For this issue, we’re welcoming back Michael Kroll, AKA Einstein, to our editorial section. If you’ve been with us for a while, chances are you know Michael, as he’s been hosting workshops in juvenile detention facilities, community centers, and high schools

Welcome, Beat Within community, to our latest publication filled with the reflections, opinions, and testimonies of incarcerated youth and adults from around the country. We’re always in awe of the work we’re privileged to publish day in and day out, and this issue is no exception!   We have a special guest joining us for this issue’s editorial note, who many of our writers know for his big hair and even bigger brain, Michael Kroll, AKA “Einstein.” Michael has been involved in nearly every aspect of The Beat since its inception, and worked closely with our late founder, David Inocencio,

Happy New Year to all you Beat Within readers! Knowing that most of you are separated from your families, we hope you enjoyed the holiday season as best you could. The Beat is so thrilled to start off 2025 in partnership with you again this year. We look forward to inspiring and uplifting each other through in person workshops and also through sharing our written stories with each other in The Beat Within magazine. We can all relate to the experiences of others, maybe on a slightly different level, but it can all contribute to our true understanding and personal

Welcome to the final issue of 2024. We extend the utmost gratitude and thanks for your support and participation in The Beat Within community. We are so proud to continue to provide space to amplify your voices. This editor note shares two new voices from different positions in The Beat Within family. From an older perspective, Michael A. Kroll, commonly known as “Einstein.” at eighty-one, he is the oldest and most veteran Beat Within facilitator, the true Beat Within OG. To the impressions and observations from Tess, one of our high school student interns, who has been helping to transcribe

Greetings to our Beat community near and far! We’re happy to have you with us once again for the deep and powerful writing of incarcerated youth across the country.  We’re excited to welcome our colleague Omar Turcios to the editorial section as he introduces us to his new baby boy, Jayden David! We hope you’ll enjoy the story he shares with us of his son’s birth and blossoming personality. Welcome Omar, and welcome Baby David!  Welcome back to another double dose edition of the one and only The Beat Within. This is the only magazine coming at you every two

Greetings to our Beat Within community! We’re proud to present to you our latest publication 29.45/46, which is, as always, packed with great reflections and insights from our incarcerated youth and adults near and far. We’re happy to have you with us!  This issue’s editorial note is brought to you by two of our interns from Urban High School of San Francisco, who have been working diligently to transcribe parts of our magazine this fall. Our first intern Charlotte writes about the intricacies of identifying with young people her age in the system, as well as the intimacy of getting