The way Jimmy Santiago Baca tells it, poetry saved his life — but he's not speaking in hyperbole. Long before the poet won an American Book Award, Baca was in prison on a drug conviction ...

The poem, with its refrain “after prison,” signals that the subject ... Betts subtly and deftly deploys the word “coffle” to connect life on the inside to the brutal history of slavery ...

Prison Poems Project It was a verdict that Amnesty ... though occasionally she spotted remnants of her old life: a photograph, a tray. But mostly, she recognized nothing. The dresses in the ...

And with Page Six reporting that he plans to write a book about his years in prison and his struggles as the child and grandchild of Hollywood icons, Cameron promised to start sharing poems with ...

At the time, Trinidad Sanchez Jr. dismissed the poem. He left home and eventually joined a Jesuit monastery in Detroit, where he worked with young offenders and prison inmates. He had a special ...

Domestic calm and the chance to catch your breath carry more meaning here beside the earlier life Betts recalls in other poems ... the ordeals and lessons of prison. Now a Yale-trained lawyer ...

So far during the course of Poetry from Daily Life we’ve heard about a number of ways in which poets find inspiration for their poems. Taking a walk. Observing. Starting with a single word.