Prison Poets
Everywhere solitary prisoners begin to create the words of the new dialogue.- Octavio Paz, 1949 The poet in him flounders in a morass of lies and distortions about his conquered… More
Walker’s Requiem
I could see myself in the dark mahogany coffin. How I had gotten there and why was something I couldn't remember. I could hear the hum of an organ… More
Recipe For Prison Pruno
Take ten peeled oranges,Jarvis Masters, it is the judgment and sentence of this court,one 8 oz. bowl of fruit cocktail,that the charged information was true,squeeze the fruit into a… More
PEN welcomes developments in prison writing suit, workshop suspension
Assurances that Connecticut's Department of Corrections will continue Wally Lamb's Creative Writing Program at the York Correctional Institution and that the State of Connecticut will soon announce a successful… More
‘Doing Time’
We've seen it all already, and it has been real enough, the cellblock riots, the black majority, what goes on inside prison walls. We've heard the clang of the… More