The Poetry Anthology, Volume Two, is finished and has been mailed. You can get your very own copy, made of real dead trees, by noting me. It'll be about five dollars, but that's adjustable based on where you live (if US dollars are worth way more in your country, for instance, or if you live next door to me and the shipping ain't much).

Also, I now have time to post more poems. Not right this second, of course, but soon. Maybe this afternoon. I hope.

Happy news! The applications for the poetry tutoring workshop have been rollin' in, and I do plan on posting the applying poems AND resulting assignments AND so forth. [cough] Buy the anthology so we can afford to do this. [cough cough]

One last thing: the author of "Anyway" [link] has been identified (well, he wrote us and identified himself), and it is Reginald West. If you want to write to him, you go right ahead, I have his address.

The Prisoner Express program [link] , sponsored by the Durland Alternatives Library [link] , promotes rehabilitation by offering inmates information, education and the opportunity for creative self-expression in a public forum. Participation in this program fosters self-exploration, enrichment and knowledge. Currently, we offer the following programs:

Books Through Bars
Distance Learning
--math
--Viking, Greek, Roman, and African history
--creative writing
Theme Essays
Poetry Anthology
Art Scholarship Contest
Erotic Writing
Book Club
Brain Games
Yoga
Journal Project
Pen Pal
Twice Yearly Newsletter (free to prisoners)

This dA account is upkept by our poetry prject intern, Toby. Both poetry AND prisoner paintings/drawings will be posted to this site, and an up-to-date list of pieces can be found here [link]

Our permanent location is Prisoner Express | 127 Anabel Taylor Hall | Ithaca, NY 14853. We are always looking for donations of books, magazines, stamps, money, and of course your time.

In solidarity,
the cool cats at Prisoner Express

Poems marked with [2] appear in the Prisoner Express Poetry Anthology, Volume 2. Not all of the Volume 2 poems are here, mind you. And yes, I will (eventually) get around to marking the poems from Volume 1.

A

Anonymous
―The Thirteenth Amendment, Amended (poem) [link]

B

Battles, Theresa
—Freedom Made Me Prison Raised Me (poem [2]) [link]

Bederson
―Wild Darkness (poem [2]) [link]

Belot, Victorious
―The Dwellers (poem) [link]

Blast, Synthia China
―It's Tough To Be Transgendered (poem [2]) [link]

C

Chaplar, William
―War and Peace (poem [2]) [link]

Christ, John E.
―Flow (poem) [link]
―Ode to a Utensil (poem) [link]

Contreras, Carlos
―Brainwashed (poem) [link]

Corley, Derrick
―Death of a Dog (poem) [link]
―Festival (poem) [link]
―The Writer (poem) [link]

Crawford, Dana "Y'ungblood"
—Crown Princess (poem [2]) [link]
—The Name of the Game (poem [2]) [link]

D

Davila, Gilbert M.
―Release (poem [2]) [link]
―Void (poem) [link]

Diles, Delvin
―Obsidian Black (poem) [link]

Dixon Sr., Brandon Jamal
―Each One Teach One (poem [2]) [link]

E F

G

Garvin, Brandon Lee
―Our Divinity (poem [2]) [link]

Gilbert, Gary
―Madness (poem [2]) [link]

H

Hines, Hilton
―"I Had a Dream" (poem) [link]

I

J

Jackson, Spoon
―It All Comes Back (poem) [link]
―No Beauty in Cell Bars (poem) [link]

Jenkins, Joseph
―Exclusion (poem) [link]

Jenkins, Willie
―Buddhist Prayer for Peace (poem [2]) [link]

Jones, Chester
―The Rebel (poem [2]) [link]

Jones, Reginald
―Shackle in U.S.A (poem [2]) [link]

K

Kennemur, Chermon
―My Blue Never Fades (poem [2]) [link]

L

M

Meier, James
―A Maiden's Tear (poem [2]) [link]
―I Gotta Ride (poem [2]) [link]
―Saddled Up (poem) [link]
―The Coon Hunt (poem [2]) [link]
―Texas Home (poem [2]) [link]

Murdoch, CF
―Lisa (poem [2]) [link]

N O

P

Page, Bryan
―Invictus II (poem [2]) [link]

Parker, Johnie
―Untitled (poem) [link]

Q

R

Ramos, Chief J.
―The Gods Decide (poem [2]) [link]

Rooster, the
―Desire (poem [2]) [link]

S

Slaymaker, J.S.
―Vetus Error (poem [2]) [link]

Snyder, David
―The Prison Within the Prisoner (poem [2]) [link]

Starkim
―The Astronaut Lady (prose-poem) [link]
―Thinking Out Loud (prose-poem) [link]
―Tomorrow Now & Yesterday (prose-poem) [link]

Steele, Tommy Ray
―Little Fingerprints on the Glass (poem [2]) [link]

Street, Eric Michael
―The Post Modern Poet's Blues (poem [2]) [link]
―Up From The Gutter (poem [2]) [link]
―Unicycle (poem [2]) [link]

T

Talib
―Signs of the Times – Breaking the Holds of Bondage (poem [2]) [link]

Tapia, Anwar
―State Property (poem [2]) [link]

Thee Baldhead Blackman
―Don't Look At Me That Way (poem [2]) [link]

Thee Gracious Poet
―A Free Kin Wings (poem) [link]
―The Lynch Trilogy (poems [2])
――(1) IT AIN'T 1712 [link]
――(2) DEmagnify 1712 [link]
――(3) DEZERTE'd KOZMOS [link]

Thomas, Earl E.
―She of My Dreams (poem [2]) [link]

Thompson, Jonathan
―Find the Answers (poem [2]) [link]

TMC (The Mexikan Connection)
―Me & You (song [2]) [link]

U

Unknown 1
―Run Charlie, Run (poem [2]) [link]

V

W

West, Reginald
―Anyway (poem [2]) [link]

Wilson, Ruben
―She's Gone (poem [2]) [link]

X Y Z