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Women Writing in Prison, edited by Jacqueline Sheehan, was published by VFI in 2005. The anthology offers a selection of raw poetry and prose written by ninety-five women incarcerated women.
" I was profoundly struck by the variety of the women's backgrounds, the courage and humanity of their stories, and the dignity and power of their voices. They need to be heard---and we on the outside need to hear them," says Ellen Doré Watson, director of the Poetry Center at Smith College.
“If courage is grace under pressure, then these poem are graceful expressions under the real pressures of confinement. Poetry’s acclaimed power to liberate is vividly exemplified in Women Writing in Prison; each poem is at once a private act of escape and confrontation.” Billy Collins, New York State Poet Laureate, former U.S. Poet Laureate
All profits from the sale of Women Writing in Prison support Voices from Inside's writing groups for incarcerated women.
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WOMEN WRITING IN PRISON |
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“A woman who has had everything imaginable and unimaginable done to her since birth writes unblinkingly about her life. That’s her starting point, and we all simply stop breathing when she reads, but the place she goes to when she journeys deepest into herself is not the world of razor blades or cat-eyed pimps, but to her deep inexplicable belief in love.”
Jacqueline Sheehan, Editor of Women Writing in Prison: An Anthology |