Doing Time: Twenty-five Years of Prison WritingBell Gale Chevigny 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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Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing from the Pen Program Bell Gale Chevigny No preview available - 2000 |
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