Judith Tannenbaum “Open-hearted and even-handed,” Hettie Jones

from Women's Review of Books

Date of Review: 
09/01/2000
Published Work: 
Disguised As A Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin
Reviewer: 
Bell Gale Chevigny
Source: 
The Women's Review of Books, Vol. XVII

Review Excerpt:

Say how ya doing
Outside world?
Do you remember me?
I’m that intricate part
Missing from the whole
The one y’all decided to forget.
(p. 29)

So, almost casually, Coties, a student in Judith Tannenbaum’s poetry workshop at San Quentin prison, drops his challenge.

Link to Full Review: 
Disguised As A Poem