Book Announcement: Reading Is My Window

Meg Sweeney, Associate Professor of English and  Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, has authored a new book! Reading Is My Window is about incarcerated women's reading practices.  The book is available from the University of North Carolina Press. Author Meg Sweeney writes to the Prison Arts Coalition about her book: Drawing on extensive individual interviews …

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The New York State Literary Center’s Jimmy Santiago Baca Library, Writing, and Publishing Center at Monroe County Jail

The Building of Ladders I have seen first hand how the streets eat childhoods. There is no discrimination just randomly picking whatever is around, devouring it in one full swallow, and spitting out any bones of humanity. And I ask why, and I rage at what I see, and I cannot stop thinking why does …

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