by Treacy Ziegler About the guest blogger: Treacy Ziegler is a regular contributor to the PAC blog, and has been an exhibiting artist for the past 23 years. She studied painting and printmaking for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. As a student she was awarded a J. Henry Scheidt Traveling Scholarship. …
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Incarcerated Women and the Transformational Power of Poetry
by Leah Thorn About the guest blogger: Leah Thorn is an artist/activist, using spoken word poetry for the autobiographical exploration of identity and liberation. She frequently performs in collaboration with dancers and musicians and her work is published through performance, film, anthologies and magazines in England and the United States. Leah also leads poetry-as-empowerment workshops, primarily in …
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The City Inside
By Hakim Bellamy About the guest blogger: Hakim Bellamy became the inaugural poet laureate of Albuquerque on April 14th, 2012, at age 33. He was the son of a preacher man (and a praying woman). His mother gave him his first book of poetry as a teen, a volume by Khalil Gibran. Many poems later, …
An Intricate Part of the Whole
This article on Black History Month by Judith Tannenbaum was originally posted on AOLNews.com on 2/4/11 Say how ya doing Outside world? Do you remember me? I'm that intricate part Missing from the whole The one y'all decided to forget ... Coties Perry wrote these words 25 years ago at San Quentin. For more than …
Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? Twenty Years of the Prison Creative Arts Project
Professor Buzz Alexander, founder of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) at the University of Michigan, has authored a new book celebrating twenty years of PCAP. The book is NOW AVAILABLE from the University of Michigan Press. Buzz's Book Tour Dates: Battle Creek, MI (after) Prison: Denied Opportunities or Safer Communities? Friday, Oct. 1st @ …