Let Man Remember
Let man remember throughout his life he’s on his way toward death:each day he travels only a little so he thinks he’s always at rest—like someone sitting at ease… More
The Kingdom and the Power
The news yesterday that King Fahd of Saudi Arabia had died sent only minor ripples through Wall Street, and caused few jitters in the already nervous energy markets. That… More
Life Under the Knife
My job in the library was my only peace in prison. The library was a little room, it couldn’t have been more then the size of a rich person’s… More
Suffer the Little Children
On a night when it's actually quiet enough to hear my own thoughts, after the lights have gone dim, my eyes burn red from reading one too many pages.… More
Huntsville Homecoming
He sits on the stoop outside the main door of the Walls, the oldest and principal administrative unit of the Texas penal system.Trembling, he clutches a worn and faded… More
Fifty Percent
I stand beneath the eaves at the back entrance to a prison school classroom watching the rain. A double row of chain-link fencing topped by spools of razorwire separate… More
Prison Sexuality
Many will consider this a perverse subject, one they would rather ignore than discuss. To do so is to deny nature. For those concerned with the health and well-being… More
Countdown in Fear
We call him Little Z. Today he received in the mail the news he had been fearing, word from the trial court that he has been assigned an execution… More
The Horizon Rises
Wednesday. It is Wednesday, isn’t it? What happened to Saturday? Did it devour Sunday and Monday and Tuesday, and was it now hungrily eyeing Wednesday’s infant morning? This savage… More
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NEW: PEN America CEO @SuzanneNossel said Princeton University’s firing of professor Joshua Katz, in the aftermath of his controversial but protected speech in an op-ed, "raises serious questions about free expression & due process on Princeton’s campus." https://pen.org/press-release/firing-of-princeton-university-professor-raises-questions-over-free-expression-and-due-process/
PEN America is partnering with @essie4justice for the premiere of QUILTED STEEL on 6/13. Here’s a brief breakdown of the urgent mass incarceration crisis in California the Essie Sisters are confronting in a thread. https://pen.org/event/quilted-steel-a-choreopoem-by-mahogany-l-browne/
