# Cristina Domenech: Poetry that frees the soul

“It’s said that to be a poet, you have to go to hell and back.” Cristina Domenech teaches writing at an Argentinian prison, and she tells the moving story of helping incarcerated people express themselves, understand themselves — and glory in the freedom of language. Watch for a powerful reading from one of her students, an inmate, in front of an audience of 10,000. In Spanish with subtitles.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- Runtime: 12 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Crime, Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/CristinaDomenech_2014X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/CristinaDomenech_2014X?play=1)