Mario F. Wright, A.A. in Writing & Literature, brings you this book of poems, brought together during his 2026 Poet in Residence with Civil Rights Corps. In Negligence, Wright challenges the humanity of the justice system and the structures that fuel it - targeting fundamental humanity, raising issues, and making them explicit to people not necessarily subjected to them, pulling readers who've never set foot in a courtroom or a cell into the reality of those who have.
Wright is also the Founder and Executive Director of Beyond City Limits Inc. (beyondcitylimitsinc.org), built on the belief that once someone is vulnerable enough to express their truth, they can reimagine their future and not be defined by their past. That same refusal to let the next generation inherit this negligence drives his belief that bringing youth voices into action allows those closest to the problem to create the solutions.