Red Room Where the Writers Are

Please visit a wonderful new blog site that allows people sharing art-making in prison to share information about programs and resources,

 I'm deep into writing By Heart: A Prison Conversation, and just re-read what I wrote in Disguised as a Poem about Milosz's visit to the prison. 

In May, 1980, Sara Jane Moore called me from prison at Alderson, West Virginia, where she was incarcerated. At the time I was living in  my mountain home in Pollock Pines, California.

Spent yesterday afternoon writing poems with a group of men at New Folsom – aka California State Prison: Sacramento.

Richard Shelton -- whose excellent Crossing the Yard I praised in a blog post a couple weeks ago -- is featured tonight on The Jim Lehrer NewsHour along with his prison workshop.

New Village Press will publish By Heart: A Prison Conversation , a two-person memoir I'm writing with Spoon Jackson.

Teach the Free Man is a book of stories by someone who knows prison.

In “Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison" -- a poem I love and recite just about