PEN AMERICA PEN America’s Writing for Justice Fellowship will commission six or more writers— emerging or established—to create written works of … [Read more...]
AM I NEXT by AJ Castro @ S.C.I. – Phoenix, St. Petersburg, Florida
Am I next? The next on to have a knife on his neck a victim of excessive force applied during arrest struggling, fighting for a … [Read more...]
Letter To The Editor: Poem by Edward Garza
THE MIGRANT by Edward GarzaChino Institute for Men I saw your shoe abandonedThere in the Sonora desert,I though what delicate feet you must … [Read more...]
Letter To The Editor: Jack Kirsch
POEM by Jack Kirsch @ Federal Correctional Complex, Florida Letter-to-the-Editor JAILHOUSE MOUSEI woke one night and saw him run beneath my … [Read more...]
Poet and thespian Donté Clark visits San Quentin
Donté Clark Poet and thespian Donté Clark, 29, visited a classroom at San Quentin on Aug. 11 to talk about his experiences of being a young Black … [Read more...]
UNDERSTAND
13 Bars to the cell, three walls form my own hell, one life of drugs and evil doing, four years of my life I earned this strike and must pay the … [Read more...]
LOST AND FOUND LOVE
#1 LOST AND FOUND LOVE I would write and tell her I love them With card’s and drawling of love and falerry Too wait for the mail that never showed … [Read more...]
“Fawn Eyes”
Father Sun shines down on my garden today, Sowing seed in mother earth as is our way. We reap what we sow-we eat what we kill, Winter we go … [Read more...]
Dear Son
As I grew up My life was rough In order to survive I had to get tough I tried to do the right thing Keep my life together But things just fell … [Read more...]
The Forgotten Women
Time in prison for transgender women can be at times like being in a foreign county. Not knowing who to treat, and to have your life put in the … [Read more...]
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