Frankie Abralind

Interview with Frankie Abralind

I started the initial organization, Poets In Residence, to expand the work that I was doing as a side project at Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital. It had started as an art project, writing poems for strangers on the street in Washington, D.C. However, I’d learned quickly that the real gift I was giving people was not the poem, it was the feeling of being heard.