RoofLess Radio Street-Writing Workshop - North Hampton

5/6/26

RoofLess Writing/Street-Writing workshop of

POOR Magazine/Taller de prensa pobre

1st Church, North Hampton, MA.

Presents:  Trauma-logues Monologue, Poetry,  Story for healing

Prompt: Describe/Write one moment/one day in your life where you faced eviction, police harassment, ICE, homelessness, sweeps, loss or ? - Escribir/describir un momento de su experiencia con desalojo, desamparado, lucha con policía, lucha con pobreza, o?

Ros P, 30 y/o

Mom called…sophomore in high school…middle of the school day.  We are being evicted.  Ran home from school and came into the apartment to a police officer asking me, “who are you?”  homeless on & off since.

Taylor

My name is Tayler.  I am currently struggling with Being pregnant and homeless while fighting constant DCF harassment for a couple of years so I’d say I’m in a unknown restless transitional time.  Trauma filled Time and having wrongful /unlawful removal of my 3 kids.  I fought for 2 years for

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hospitalization

Annikka

It’s hard to just pick one moment of homelessness.  The realization, acceptance, descent. Moving from place to place with no stability, assurance, guidance.  I didn’t see it coming.  I never thought I would be here.  I don’t know where I’m going.  I want to keep going.  I want to find hopefulness in homelessness.  Nothing is certain.  But I’m still here.  Each step is a step towards the future.  The world keeps moving.  Is it moving without me?  Faster and faster, people want more and more.  It’s ok to take things slow.  One moment at a time.  Waiting for a miracle or fighting for change.

Alexander

The Death of my Grandmother was devastating time. An event,... that truly changed the lives of my extended family.  After the Death of the great woman who … a single mother of 7 after her husband passed away, the lies and deceptions of my family came to light.  To my mother, who, ever since her death of her father, when she was only ten, was bullied and humiliated by her siblings up until a few years back.  The death of her mother was a … devastation.  20 years had gone by a blink of an eye, and all because of false …, my mother, her mother, she couldn’t hug ever again.  For now, almost 3 years.  Since her passing of my grandmother I’ve seen the light of life in my mothers eyes dwindle.  For her first year, every day she broke down … out for her mother.  My heart and soul afraid secretly my mother break down to the .... How I miss my mother, I miss my grandmother, but I …of ..mother sits on my mother

Nikolas Wolf

The winter was brutal.  Single digit temps and 2 feet of snow crushed the tent, and so many others.  It took weeks to replace them.  The emergency shelter was temporary, but gave us warm cots for a few nights. But how many times must we lose everything?

Celyne

One moment?-it’s hard to pull one from 67 years of housing - living- precariousness.  The daughter of a single mom- the rent was always due- the landlord the police outside the door, the bullying the sexual harassment ^ abuse just house then unhoused became part of the everyday.

I tried to escape, I vowed to escape but I learned the system was the chains it went …undivided I could do alone.  I became a single mom of a now disabled kid & in the beauty of this life the oppression continued.  My hopes lie in community & then collectiveness of us all to fight the capital machine.  Thank you all for being here ..!

Philip Surprenant

I was evicted and Trespassed from

Every source property with less

Than 24 hrs to move

Dylan Roberton

When I was in Seattle I had a friend I was staying with who had 1 condition I couldn't use but I quickly realized and then had to live out on the street for the first time.  In Seattle the problem wasn’t so much the cold but staying out of the rain.  I got by without a tent for a while, eventually my girlfriend came out and convinced me to come back east, eventually had to give up apartment out here within 15 hours I ended up outside.

Paris

The Moose camp sweep

-touch the…protest

Not safe or secure anywhere

We go where they tell us

Until they change their minds

Romona Holland

-loss of immediate family

-been through couch surfing crisis, detox, harm reduction, residential programs, sober homes, shelters, eventually tents

-lack of motivation facing my …. addiction problems, mental health issues, overall inconsistencies with my therapist, and psychiatrist