From the OWC CommunitySometimes, great voices are those that have been constrained a bit. Here, we offer various writings from prison inmates as well as contact information if you’d like to take the conversation off-line.
In my work with Thousand Kites I’ve had a chance to read some poems written by Jean Mooney. Jean is incarcerated at the Otter Creek Correctional Center in Wheelwright Kentucky, and she is participating in a creative writing class facilitated by Thousand Kites staff member Julia Taylor.
The thing about Jean that floors me...
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Anthony: In this demented, sexist pig, misogynic, lie-based, cowardice-worshipping settler outpost, you sing the song of lesbianism! Tell us how it was coming to this fundamental harmony with yourself amidst such a brute-stupid, missionary positioned social miasma?
Lee: Anthony, Brother, the more I read your work or letters, I am convinced that your perceptions of...
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Introduction
As a long-time prisoner supporter who goes the extra step by making it my business to collaborate with the bravest most lucid prisoners, one of the goals I seek is to get the voice of womyn prisoners out there. This has proven to be a difficult endeavor for many reasons.
Womyn prisoners are...
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“Anyone can put an end to tossing about in the slavery of what they don’t know-and by refusing the sop of empty words, come to daggers with life.” (C. Michelstaedter)
8/19/06
Dear Wild Bill,
Been a few since my last episode of prison drama and federal surveillance, and I’ve got the usual excuses: mail censored and delayed,...
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