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Hard Time in Prison

I had one / wish it will be I wish I can / get out of this cuz this is / a suffering pain time I’m doing

Carvis Johnson

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Two poems

“Shower Call Down Below” & “29 L-Building”

Victor Wilder

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Hi Rise

I’m eligible to smoke til I fall clapping my / Hands and feet all the same time / Laffing at all this shit.

Bryant Kirk

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Poetry from Mississippi State Penitentiary

Work from poets incarcerated in Parchman’s Unit 29

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Three poems

“Crying Johnny,” “Officer Judy Gives Instructions to the Lock Down Inmates,” & “Holiday Special Meal”

Leon Johnson

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The Names They Call Us

“I applaud, your / Frankenstein’s monster, forevermore.”

Wayne Grant

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Prisoner of Poetry

“What does it mean to be an / incarcerated poet?”

Alexander Gallet

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“Incarcerated Slavery” & “2 crack a smile”

“The cotton field / is replaced by walls of steel . . . ”

Brandon Callender

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“Don Haitian Monument” & “The Hunters”

“Paralyzed in shock / by slave raid tactics, / my trembling hands on the wall . . .”

Amos Don

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