Reach Into My Darkness is a collection of spokenword poetry and poems that delve into teen violence, street life, education and other day to day issues that impact students. The goal of this book is to provide teachers with additional tools to connect with and empower their students to express themselves in a positive way through poetry. This is not a book about happy endings. This is a reflection of struggles that can silence a child forever.

Dead Before 18 is for you men who, feel the world is against them; who are determined to be respected and survive through the threats that want to kill them or place them in prison; feel that the streets are all that they know and can depend on. This book was written to help them save their own lives, their own futures, and for them to make it home every night.

Written by Lamont Carey. A man that survived the streets, prison and found that the only way to live and succeed is to know the truth about oneself and the streets.