James Broadnax is a Texas-based writer, poet, and artist whose work reflects on survival, accountability, and transformation over nearly two decades of incarceration on Texas’s death row. His writing blends raw autobiographical reflection with lyrical precision, drawing from a life marked by instability, violence, and loss—experiences he neither excuses nor romanticizes, but instead interrogates with clarity and depth.
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Four Poems by James Broadnax
In the almost 20 years he’s been incarcerated, Texas-based poet and artist James Broadnax has used his art to hold onto his sense of purpose.