Guest Contributor: Leo Cardez There is nothing exactly like living in Hell, but there is something close to it. In my Hell, where I lived for most of 2013, there is, as Dante understood, no hope. You wake up every morning realizing that your nightmare will continue into your waking hours. The loss you have …
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Guest Blog: Dorothy Maraglino – Prison Society
by Dorothy Maraglino Prison Society If the local news anchor reported a story about eight women living in a 19 by 24 foot studio apartment, red flags would fly high about the subpar living conditions that might exist. Yet that is how most of women within CDCR live. There are eight women living in a …
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Community Voices Blog: Staff Art Picks
We are so excited to announce our newest series on the JAC Blog: Community Voices. Through this new blog series, we will be highlighting stories, insights, and reflections from across the JAC network of teaching artists, volunteers, interns, staff and our wonderful audience and supporters. We are so grateful to have such a passionate and …
Artist Spotlight: Troy Glover
by Isa Berliner, JAC Intern Troy Glover has always been a storyteller. He remembers entertaining his little league baseball team with ghost stories on rides home after games and writing poetic letters to the girls in his elementary school class. “That should have been a sign I sucked because I didn’t get a girlfriend until …
Guest Post: Naomi Rachel – The Amazing Nash News
by Naomi Rachel, JAC Volunteer - with Gary Farlow and Caddell Kivett After working with incarcerated poets for twenty years (with PEN and JAC) I didn’t expect to be amazed by anything produced at a prison. Yup, I was a bit jaded. Never by the writers, who always impress me with their knowledge and their …
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