Doing Time: Twenty-five Years of Prison Writing

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Bell Gale Chevigny
Arcade Publishing, 1999 - Fiction - 349 pages
Doing Time stirs readers by heightening their awareness of the struggle of men and women behind bars to keep their humanity. This collection of the best of PEN's annual prison writing contest celebrates fifty-one writers and their ability not only to write with passion and eloquence but also to create art in the most dire of circumstances.
 

Contents

INITIATIONS
1
Became a Convict Victor Hassine
14
Reductions William Aberg
27
The Toledo Madman and the Ultimate
42
Old Man Motown Patrick Nolan
56
Chronicling Sing Sing Prison Easy Waters
73
Skyline Turkey Richard Stratton
80
Suicide Robert Kelsey
86
Eleven Days Under Siege Paul Mulryan
181
Pearl Got Stabbed Charles P Norman
191
Lees Time Susan Rosenberg
206
FAMILY
217
Our Skirt Kathy Boudin
225
A Stranger Anthony La Barca Falcone
236
THE WORLD
245
No Brownstones Just Alleyways and Corner Pockets Full
255

READING AND WRITING
97
Pell Grants for Prisoners Jon Marc Taylor
107
Tetrina Bedford Hills Writing Workshop
113
Behind the Mirrors Face Paul St John
119
Black Flag to the Rescue Michael E Saucier
126
solidarity with cataracts Vera Montgomery
140
Feathers on the Solar Wind David Wood
153
Death of a Duke Dax Xenos
164
RACE CHANCE CHANGE
175
The Film David Taber
261
Mel J C Amberchele
275
GETTING OUT
285
To Those Still Waiting M A Jones
291
DEATH ROW
301
Walkers Requiem Anthony Ross
308
Write a poem that makes no sense Judith Clark
320
About the Authors
327
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