The seed of Street Poets Inc. was planted back in 1995 when Writers Guild member Chris Henrikson first began volunteer-teaching a poetry workshop at Camp Miller, a Los Angeles County Probation camp for boys. That seed quickly took root and soon there was a waiting list of camp minors eager to get into the class. “The Street Poets workshop was like a breath of fresh air in that place. There was no judgment, no gang drama, no probation officers cussing us out. We could just be ourselves, and we got to see each other for real, even our so-called enemies,” former Camp Miller minor Jason Quezada remembers. “That poetry workshop was my favorite two hours of the week.”