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Mississippi Prisoners Tell Their Stories

March 20, 2025March 21, 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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