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She explains that the kids are at high risk of dropping out of school, getting involved with drugs and other negative influences, or otherwise ending up on the dark side of life. Instead, with their membership in Owl and Panther, “they are becoming community volunteers, and some are getting into college, two on scholarships for academic excellence,” she says.
Owl and Panther poems have been published in Tucson newspapers, University of Arizona literary magazines, Faces Magazine, and in 9/11: The Day America Cried, among other publications.
The Owl and Panther: Writing from the Darkness Project is a creation of the Hopi Foundation’s Center for the Prevention and Resolution of Violence. The CPRV is a comprehensive program in Tucson for the care of refugees and torture survivors, which also provides a weekly medical clinic at the University of Arizona, counseling for at-
