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Locked up for month, years, or decades, poetry is form of self-expression that’s become vital to the incarcerated. In Prison, Poetry can keep you sane, and help you move towards a better future.
To mark National Poetry Month, we bring you a special production by the Prison Poetry Workshop. We go from California’s San Quentin prison, to a group of Alabama prison poets. And we’ll meet a legendary prison poet of the 1960’s who helped spark a literary movement.
Featuring:
- Andrew Gazzeny, San Quentin prisoner poet
- Etheridge Knight, formerly incarcerated poet
- Janice Knight-Mooney, Etheridge’s sister
- James Depp, poet and friend of Etheridge
- Melba Boyd, former Broadside Press employee
- Ira Smith, Guy Carter, AJ Payne, Sarge Daniels, Calvin Green, Staton Correctional Facility poets
- Keyes Stevens, Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project facilitator
- Dwayne Betts,formerly incarcerated poet
More information
- Prison Poetry Workshop
- Etheridge Knight
- Broadside Press
- Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project
- A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison by Dwaye Betts
- Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodriguez
- Chucha’s Centro Cultural
- Voices Unbroken
