Poetry and Prose

This space provides an opportunity to highlight writing by people who are or have been in prison. To search for particular phrases or names within this collection, please click here. If you are interested in purchasing work that you see in our galleries or portfolios, please reach out to us.

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Gary Farlow
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Gary Farlow
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Gary Farlow
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Gary Farlow
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Gary Farlow
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Gary Farlow

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Gary Farlow

Gary Farlow
Gary Farlow
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Bryant Harrison
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Bryant Harrison
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Bryant Harrison
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Bryant Harrison
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Crystal Jennings
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Joshua Earls
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Joshua Earls
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Joshua Earls
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Joshua Earls
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Bryant Harrison
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Bryant Harrison
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Troy Glover
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Troy Glover
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Troy Glover
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Troy Glover
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Bryant Harrison
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Jennifer Diaz
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Jennifer Diaz
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Jordan Earls
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Jennifer Diaz
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Jordan Earls,  COVID-19
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Jordan Earls, When I Dare to Write
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Jordan Earls, When I Dare to Write
Broken Heart
Gilbert Hammel
Belittled
Gilbert Hammel
Ramifications
Gilbert Hammel
I Shall Do My Time
Gilbert Hammel
I Need To Have You
Gilbert Hammel
Get High
by Bryant Harrison
Anywhere but here
by Julie Spencer
Justice
Gilbert Hammel
How You Must Feel
Gilbert Hamel
Teach Me Grace part 1
by Cedar Mortenson
It Can’t Be Easy
Gilbert Hamel
Junk In My Head
Gilbert Hamel
For You
Gilbert Hamel
They May Have My Body, But They Don’t Have My Mind
Gilbert Hamel
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O.G. Blue
A Wonderful World
O.G. Blue
To the Tiny Insects Crawling on My Windshield
by Julie Spencer
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Tears, come
by Tony C.
Teach Me Grace part 2
by Cedar Mortenson
by Tony C.
Satin Magic
by Bryant Harrison
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by Patrick Galloway
Dios siempre esta ahi
by Tony C.

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Fragment of a Dream
Gary Farlow
The One Within
Gary Farlow
On Michaelangelo’s Angels
Gary Farlow

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A Picture of Me...Without You
Gary Farlow
Porches, Puddin’, and Persimmon
Gary Farlow
Jordan Earls
A Pain Shared
Jordan Earls
The Shame
Jordan Earls
Distant, But Mine
Jordan Earls
Mama Hated This...
Jordan Earls
Lady Godiva
Jordan Earls
Every First Snow
Jordan Earls
Firefly Poems
Jordan Earls
Poetry is...
Jordan Earls
Why I Write
Jordan Earls
Twenty-Twenty
Jordan Earls
no such thing as love
Jordan Earls
The Book
Wind Walker
The Book
Wind Walker
The Book
Wind Walker
I Hear Them Laughing!
Wind Walker
God Knows No Stranger
Wind Walker

Inside Insomnia

A Mile in My Shoes

Phillip Dugger