POPS stands for Pain of the Prison System, and POPS the Club stands for transforming that pain into dignity, belonging, and freedom. POPS the Club creates and sustains a welcoming and loving community in high schools that foster and support teenagers with loved ones in prison. Their stories, poetry and artwork are achingly honest expressions of their experiences: What it is like to live in dangerous and desirous neighborhoods, to love people in prison and those who have been deported or have died, to feel invisible, unseen and unheard and impotent. It is through these stories that club members enhance their transformation, from impotent to important, from invisible to seen, from silent to strong and understood. In the Key of Love is POPS the Club's fifth release (following Runaway Thoughts (2014); Ghetto By the Sea (2015); Before There Were Bars (2016) and Cracked Masks (2017)). These are stories from across the country, from Los Angeles, Belmont, Culver City, El Camino Real Charter, James Monroe, LA High School of the Arts, Lawndale, Santa Monica and Venice High Schools; from Baltimore's Renaissance Academy; and from Harrisburg's Sci Tech and Steelton Highspire High Schools.
Author and Playwright, Dennis Danziger is co-founder of POPS the Club. After 10 years as a television writer (Taxi, Kate and Allie and many more), Danziger taught English for 25 years in high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. His most recent play, The Richard Nixon Sex Tapes, has been produced in Los Angeles and at the William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Lab.
Show morePOPS stands for Pain of the Prison System, and POPS the Club stands for transforming that pain into dignity, belonging, and freedom. POPS the Club creates and sustains a welcoming and loving community in high schools that foster and support teenagers with loved ones in prison. Their stories, poetry and artwork are achingly honest expressions of their experiences: What it is like to live in dangerous and desirous neighborhoods, to love people in prison and those who have been deported or have died, to feel invisible, unseen and unheard and impotent. It is through these stories that club members enhance their transformation, from impotent to important, from invisible to seen, from silent to strong and understood. In the Key of Love is POPS the Club's fifth release (following Runaway Thoughts (2014); Ghetto By the Sea (2015); Before There Were Bars (2016) and Cracked Masks (2017)). These are stories from across the country, from Los Angeles, Belmont, Culver City, El Camino Real Charter, James Monroe, LA High School of the Arts, Lawndale, Santa Monica and Venice High Schools; from Baltimore's Renaissance Academy; and from Harrisburg's Sci Tech and Steelton Highspire High Schools.
Author and Playwright, Dennis Danziger is co-founder of POPS the Club. After 10 years as a television writer (Taxi, Kate and Allie and many more), Danziger taught English for 25 years in high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. His most recent play, The Richard Nixon Sex Tapes, has been produced in Los Angeles and at the William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Lab.
Show moreAmy Friedman is co-founder and Executive Director of POPS the Club, an author, editor, ghostwriter and writing teacher whose memoir, Desperado's Wife, is the story of her marriage to a man she met while she was a newspaper columnist writing about prison. They fell in love and married. In many ways this is the origin story of POPS the Club Author and Playwright, Dennis Danziger is co-founder of POPS the Club. After 10 years as a television writer (Taxi, Kate and Allie and many more), Danziger taught English for 25 years in high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. His most recent play, The Richard Nixon Sex Tapes, has been produced in Los Angeles and at the William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Lab. Actor, writer and editor (of books and magazines), Kate was editorial director of DisneyOnline and writer/producer of FamilyFun.com. From 2006 to 2009 Kate was marketing communications manager of Reunion.com (now MyLife.com), wrote blogs and shopping guides for SHOP.com, contracted with eHarmony as copywriter for articles, emails, landing pages, surveys. She is an editor and writing coach, assessing and editing fiction and nonfiction books and proposals.
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