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Sapphire Reads Poems by 2008 Prison Writing Award Winners
Sapphire reads Yvette Louisell’s “Last Minutes,” “My Blue-Eyed Baby Boy,” and “Butterscotch Knew,” Zachary Redfearne’s “Beyond the Peas and Carrots,” and John Yarbrough’s “Tahoka, Texas” at 2008 Prison Writing Contest: A Reading.
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