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Sanctuary

June 20, 2025June 16, 2025Drew Bufalini 0

CCTV cameras were in Wren’s lapartment, one of hundreds observing the brain injured residents of the Michigan Semi-Independent Living Center.

The Cage

June 20, 2025June 16, 2025Mark Wolters 0

Two men in cages discuss the same conversation they’ve had for years while recognizing nothing will change for them. They are powerless.

Mississippi Prisoners Tell Their Stories

March 20, 2025June 20, 2025Ryan Brinkhurst 0

A review of Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison.

Last Supper

March 20, 2024June 20, 2024Matias Travieso-Diaz 0

In “Last Supper,” a death row inmate has an unconventional last meal the night before his unjust execution.

Last Night I Saw Joe Hill

March 20, 2024June 20, 2024Ruth Ticktin 0

Like the song and the writer, I wonder about meeting one no longer in this world. By speaking with them we learn and this gives me hope.

disseverance

September 20, 2022December 20, 2022RC deWinter 0

When the inevitably right thing happens – and doesn’t.

The Days After

March 20, 2022June 21, 2022Sewell Thompson 0

Eddie has left prison, but the prison hasn’t left him.

Sermon

September 20, 2021December 20, 2021Frederick Pollack 0

I thought at first it was a play, and wondered who would enjoy such stasis and pretension.

Freed

March 20, 2019June 20, 2019Katherine Davis 0

My poem reflects an idiosyncratic vision of the mind/body divide and of the journey to personal freedom.

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