RECENT Publications

The Value of Mentors in Prison

Engulfed

The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us

Waterline

The Accident That Changed My Life in Prison

Who Should Care for the Elderly in Prison?

How A Prison ‘Heal Circle’ Helps Incarcerated Men

Interface

Sublime Melody, Infinite Mundane: László Krasznahorkai’s Herscht 07769

These Words Are Fugitives

Prison breastfeeding program in Florida helps build bonds between incarcerated mothers and their infants

10 Questions for Catherine LaFleur

Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories

Never Eat the Candy on Your Pillow

Surviving Abstinence

A Nation Divided on Both Sides of the Wall: Election Night at Sing Sing Correctional Facility

What Happens In Prison When You Can’t Pee On Command

I Should Never Have Picked Up That Gun

The Case Against Solitary Confinement: Explained

What, to the Incarcerated American, Is Your Election Day?

Stripped Rights

People on death row are just as susceptible to election misinformation

Breaking In: The challenges of making it in the publishing industry from prison

DIY Prison Project

I Became My Own Version of My Father. It Cost Me My Freedom.

The Transformative Journey of Higher Education in Prison: A Class of One

Michigan & Me

‘The hardest thing about being in prison is not being able to care for those you love’

Q & A With 2023-2024 Poet Laureate Catherine Lafleur

Matthew Mendoza | The PEN Ten Interview

Both Prisons and the Public Rely On Incarcerated Writers

Trusted Sources: Why Mainstream Media Needs Incarcerated Voices

How to File Public Records Requests From Prison

Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State

How Kentucky’s Lack of Prison Education Programs Leads to Despair

American Inmate: the album

The Invisible Labor of Women Who Love Incarcerated People

86 Cents for a Day of Work is a Reality for Most Incarcerated People

I’m Serving Life in Prison. Learning Not to Judge Others Has Set Me Free

How Synthetic Marijuana Is Ravaging NY Prisons

The Amazing Ability of Poems to Transcend Divides

College on death row: “Y’all aren’t here to be rehabilitated.”

The Manual, Holistic Justice & the Path to Higher Ground

A North Korean Refugee’s Kentucky Jail Stay

Prisoners Like Me Are Being Held Hostage to Price Hikes

I Was Unconstitutionally Disenfranchised in Jail

Naming of Our Village

The Backstory

Reading While Incarcerated Saved Me. So Why Are Prisons Banning Books?

Wildflowers in the Median: A Restorative Journey Into Healing, Justice, and Joy

Selected Works (The Harbinger)

Secret Solitary

Bone Orchard: Reflections on Life Under Sentence of Death

Currency Communion

Why Write About Life in Prison?

Here is Home

I’ve Been Incarcerated for More than a Decade. Music and Literature Set Me Free

I’m Serving Life in Prison. Learning Not to Judge Others Has Set Me Free

I’ve Been Incarcerated for More than a Decade. Music and Literature Set Me Free

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At Night I Fly

Selected Poems

Meena in Captivity

Roundtable: Poetry and Prison Abolition

“Language is Evidence”: An Interview with Justin Rovillos Monson

How to Survive Supermax

Two Poems

To those behind bars or patrolling them, COVID-19 represents a shared threat

How Coronavirus is Changing Life Inside San Quentin State Prison

Gun Shaped State Off Safety

Game of Phones

Why a Small Offense Shouldn’t Have Life-Altering Consequence

All of Us, In Prison

Stolen Time

Prison Poet Laureate 2019

The Prison Diary of Elizabeth Hawes

Freedom Feather

What’s Prison Like?

The Graybar Hotel: Stories

Death Row’s First Ever Talent Show

The Implications of Trying to Kill Yourself on Death Row

By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

Longer Ago

The Actors & the Awards; Contributors’ Notes; Near Kyiv; Bodies in Northern Africa

If You Were to Ask Me Love

Letters from Daddy

Privacy and Morning Rituals

insomnia; a midnight fresco

Exquisite Corpses

Letter to My Future Self as a Previously Incarcerated Writer (and other poems)