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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 1960s 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.
Credits:
Host: Andrew Stelzer, Rend Smith
Contributing Producers: Rend Smith, Nick Szuberla
Producers: Andrew Stelzer, George Lavender
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor: Kwan Booth
Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner and Barbara Barnett
