Poetry

PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship 2021

January 30, 2021 by Administrators

PEN America’s Writing for Justice Fellowship will commission six or more writers— emerging or established—to create written works of lasting merit … [Read more...]

AM I NEXT by AJ Castro @ S.C.I. – Phoenix, St. Petersburg, Florida

December 31, 2020 by Administrators

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

November 27, 2020 by Administrators

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

November 26, 2020 by Administrators

POEM by Jack Kirsch @ Federal Correctional Complex, Florida JAILHOUSE MOUSEI woke one night and saw him run beneath my door, then he raninto my … [Read more...]

Poet and thespian Donté Clark visits San Quentin

November 18, 2019 by Juan Haines

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 writer from … [Read more...]

UNDERSTAND

March 29, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

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

March 5, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

#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”

March 4, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

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

February 5, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

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

February 3, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

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...]