Yvette M. Louisell grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Cincinnati, Ohio. She was incarcerated at age seventeen and is currently serving year twenty-four of a life-without-parole sentence in Iowa.
Yvette M. Louisell
Articles by Yvette M. Louisell
Tuesday June 24
Prison Eulogies
Prison Eulogies The ones who died never mattered much except in here where the stories never end because they’re too real Michelle who beat her girl until she got out and got her own self killed Stella who laughed & laughed until that last hit hit her vein Whoda thought a pulled tooth would make
Thursday May 10
Fried Mushrooms
My mother is the kind of woman/ who buys fried mushrooms/ with her last five dollars/ on the way home/ from a listless day waiting/ for nothing/ at the welfare office
Thursday June 23
The Glove Compartment
For everyone in else in my family, the realization came gradually: a gesture here, a phrase there eventually added up to what they had seen all along but had not wanted to know. It wasn’t like that for me. I saw everything clearly in one brief moment, like that first slap across the face from