Book

Doing time : twenty-five years of prison writing / edited by Bell Gale Chevigny ; foreword by Helen Prejean.

1st ed.

New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Time Warner Trade Pub., 1999.

xxxii, 349 pages ; 25 cm

""Doing Time," For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity."--BOOK JACKET. "For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide. Bell Chevigny, a writer herself and a former prison teacher, has selected the best of these to create Doing Time - a timely, beautiful, sometimes devastating, but vital work, which demonstrates resoundingly that prison writing is a vibrant branch of American literature."--Jacket.

Prisoners' writings, American.

Prisoners -- Literary collections.

Prisons -- Literary collections.

American literature -- 20th century.

Short stories.

Fiction.

Drama.

Essays.

Poetry.

Literature.

Chevigny, Bell Gale.

PEN America.

"A PEN American Center prize anthology."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-324).

committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust To help ensure preservation of print and digital collections, this title is retained by Yale University Library on behalf of the HathiTrust Shared Print Program.

Foreword / Sister Helen Prejean -- Introduction / Bell Gale Chevigny -- Initiations -- Prison letter / M.A. Jones -- Siempre / William Aberg -- Dog star desperado / William Orlando -- How I became a convict / Victor Hassine -- Arrival / Judee Norton -- Time and its terms -- Reductions / William Aberg -- Where or when / Jackie Ruzas -- An overture / M.A. Jones -- Vivaldi on the far side of the bars / M.A. Jones -- Killing time / Roger Jaco -- After almost twenty years / Chuck Culhane -- There isn't enough bread / Chuck Culhane -- The manipulation game : doing life in Pennsylvania / Diane Hamill Metzger -- Giving me a second chance / Larry Bratt -- Myths of darkness : the Toledo Madman and the ultimate freedom / J.R. Grindlay -- Routines and ruptures -- Spring / Michael Hogan -- Autumn yard / Chuck Culhane -- Letters come to prison / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Trina Marie / Lori Lynn McLuckie -- After lights out / Barbara Saunders -- Poem for the conguero in D Yard / Raymond Ringo Fernandez -- In the big yard / Reginald Lewis -- Old man Motown / Patrick Nolan -- The tower pig / Scott A. Antworth -- The night the owl interrupted / Daniel Roseboom -- Work -- Chronicling Sing Sing Prison / Easy Waters -- Cut partner / Michael E. Saucier -- Gun guard / Michael E. Saucier -- Skyline turkey / Richard Stratton -- Suicide! / Robert Kelsey -- Reading and writing -- Coming into language / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Pell grants for prisoners / Jon Marc Taylor -- Tetrina / Bedford Hills Writing Workshop -- Sestina: Reflections on Writing / Bedford Hills Writing Workshop -- Behind the mirror's face / Paul St. John -- Black Flag to the rescue / Michael E. Saucier -- Players, games -- I see your work / Joseph E. Sissler -- solidarity with cataracts / Vera Montgomery -- Clandestine kisses / Marilyn Buck -- Ryan's ruse / Jackie Ruzas -- Feathers on the solar wind / David Wood -- Death of a duke / Dax Xenos.

Race, chance, change -- First day on the job / Henry Johnson -- Eleven days under siege / Paul Mulryan -- Pearl got stabbed! / Charles P. Norman -- Sam / Michael Wayne Hunter -- Lee's time / Susan Rosenberg -- Family -- Ancestor / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Uncle Adam / Diane Hamill Metzger -- The red dress / Barbara Saunders -- Ignorance is no excuse for the law / Alejo Dao'ud Rodriguez -- Our skirt / Kathy Boudin -- The ball park / Henry Johnson -- Norton #59900 / Judee Norton -- A stranger / Anthony La Barca Falcone -- After my arrest / Judith Clark -- To Vladimir Mayakovsky / Judith Clark -- A trilogy of journeys / Kathy Boudin -- The world -- Prisons of our world / Allison Blake -- Pilots in the war on drugs / Robert J. Moriarty -- No brownstones, just alleyways and corner pockets full / J.L. Wise, Jr. -- Americans / Jon Schillaci -- For Sam Manzie / Jon Schillaci -- Diner at midnight / David Taber -- The film / David Taber -- The 5-Spot Cafe / Henry Johnson -- Melody / J.C. Amberchele -- Mel / J.C. Amberchele -- Getting out -- Dream of escape / Henry Johnson -- After all those years / Ajamu C.B. Haki -- Stepping away from my father / William Aberg -- To those still waiting / M.A. Jones -- The break / Robert M. Rutan -- Death row -- For Mumia : I wonder / Kathy Boudin -- Easy to kill / Jackie Ruzas -- Recipe for prison pruno / Jarvis Masters -- Conversations with the dead / Stephen W. Anderson -- Walker's requiem / Anthony Ross -- "Write a poem that makes no sense" / Judith Clark.

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