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Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
Sometimes called the "grandfather of Chicano poetry," Sánchez gained national acclaim for his 1971 poetry collection Canto y Grito Mi Liberacion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Incarcerated in his twenties for stealing money to feed his struggling family, Sánchez read extensively and even learned Hebrew while at Soledad Prison in California. [ 3 ]
Prison Stories, styled as Prison Stories: A Collection of Short Storie[s], is a collection of prison stories by Nigerian writer Helon Habila. " Love Poem ", which is among the stories included in the collection, won the 2001 Caine Prize for African Writing .
Aaron Radford-Wattley reads Masters’s poem, which Masters wrote while on death row at San Quentin State Prison and won him a PEN Award. “Recipe for Prison Pruno,” by Jarvis Jay Masters Skip ...
While being transported to Clinton, Corso, terrified of prison and the prospect of rape, concocted a story of why he was sent there. He told hardened Clinton inmates he and two friends had devised the wild plan of taking over New York City by means of walkie-talkies, projecting a series of improbable and complex robberies.
Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. [1] The writing can be about prison, informed by it, or simply incidentally written while in prison.
Savage's first certain work was a poem satirizing Bishop Hoadly, entitled The Convocation, or The Battle of Pamphlets (1717), which he afterwards tried to suppress. He adapted from a Spanish comedy, Love in a Veil, [5] (acted 1718, printed 1719), which gained him the friendship of Sir Richard Steele, who became his first patron, and of Robert Wilks.
The Man Who Died Twice is a narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that was first published in 1924. [1] The poem is written in blank verse. Its hero is the unfulfilled musician Fernando Nash. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1925. [2]