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Apr.26.2009
Check out my interview with Martha Alderson and Blockbuster Plots. Martha is a master at helping writers plot their books, fiction and nonfiction.
http://www.blockbusterplots.com/resc/spieler.html
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Apr.10.2009
Where better to send a bunch of crime writers and their fans than a prison? The Horsens Crime Festival in Jutland, the part of Denmark linked to mainland Europe, did just that last month.
Horsens prison was in use until three years ago. By the end it was a fairly humane place – this is Denmark,...
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Oct.30.2008
Please visit a wonderful new blog site that allows people sharing art-making in prison to share information about programs and resources, as well as to post blogs about the work.
The group that worked on this blog site is in the process of developing what we need (mission statement, etc) to create...
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Sep.04.2008
I'm deep into writing By Heart: A Prison Conversation, and just re-read what I wrote in Disguised as a Poem about Milosz's visit to the prison.
I haven't been able to spend much time on Red Room these days, but I did catch a bit of the thread about Famous Writers I've Met. So here is a shorted-...
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Aug.28.2008
In May, 1980, Sara Jane Moore called me from prison at Alderson, West Virginia, where she was incarcerated. At the time I was living in my mountain home in Pollock Pines, California. She asked, no begged me, to save her art collection from disposal by driving to San Francisco and rescuing her few...
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Jul.20.2008
Imagine being arrested for a crime you didn't commit, a serious crime, maybe one in which you could lose your life if you're convicted. Imagine that a series of everything that can go wrong does--maybe you were in the vicinity of the crime or maybe you were home alone at the time of the crime with...
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Jun.19.2008
Spent yesterday afternoon writing poems with a group of men at New Folsom – aka California State Prison: Sacramento. The Arts in Corrections room at this prison is small and stifling, but filled with paintings, books, musical instruments, and men doing serious work to make the next steps on their...
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Jun.16.2008
Richard Shelton -- whose excellent Crossing the Yard I praised in a blog post a couple weeks ago -- is featured tonight on The Jim Lehrer NewsHour along with his prison workshop. A pretty good first look at what this work is; some excellent poetry and interviews with the prison poets; and...
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Jun.13.2008
New Village Press will publish By Heart: A Prison Conversation , a two-person memoir I'm writing with Spoon Jackson.
We will talk about prison, poetry, education, inequity, beauty, possibility, and what it means to be human. The process of our conversations -- in person at San Quentin, and in...
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Jun.07.2008
Teach the Free Man is a book of stories by someone who knows prison. Red Room author Peter Nathaniel Malae doesn't advertise time he has or hasn't done, but his intimate and intricate knowledge of California prisons, and what it is to be locked up in them, speaks for itself. Most of the stories...
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