Christopher Sivert

Former educator, combat veteran of Iraq, and practicing Buddhist. Winner of 1995 National Library of Poetry’s Grand Prize. Some of his favorite writers: Henry Miller, Jonathan Shaw, Jeanette Winterson, Anaïs Nin, Celine, Carlos Ruiz Zafón Cherrie Priest, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jordan, Annie Dillard, Charles Bukowski, David Foster Wallace, George Orwell, Primo Levi, Dalton Trumbo, Jonathan Safron Foer, William S. Burroughs.

Blessing to the Bomb Throwers: Aaron McGruder, R. Crumb, Banksy, Laura Callaghan, Peekasso, Zolloc…Shailene Woodley in orange with honor…

Rebelais: for all the ills of the world, I give you laughter…Learn to laugh at prison, Friends; a tear is just one more drop of undrinkable water on the planet.


Articles by Christopher Sivert

Prison and Justice Writing
Monday November 20

House of the Interpreter

Moyet, our interpreter, quietly translates to him what is being said, unconsciously keeping his hand to his throat, with steady eyes focusing on the dead girls.