where the writers are

Latest News & Events

View all»

Writing in California Prisons @ Litquake

Sep.05.2011
Writing in California Prisons @ Litquake

Panel representing recent books by four men in California prisons:

Kenneth E Hartman’s Mother California
Spoon Jackson’s By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives
Jarvis Master’s, That Bird Has My Wings
Boston Woodard’s Inside the Broken California Prison System

Judith Tannenbaum will facilitate the panel which will include readings from each of the four books plus time for audience sharing.

When: Saturday, October 8, 2011  12-1
Where: Variety Preview Room  
            582 Market St., First Floor
            San Francisco

Featured Works

View all»

Judith's Latest Blogs

View all»
Feb.04.2011 - 10:43 am
Intricate Part of the Whole
Who do we (those of us with some power) forget when we talk about history, public policy, and what it means to be human? Which children do we nurture? Which do we shun?  Black...
Continue Reading »
Oct.03.2010 - 4:53 am
Waiting for Superman
Went with Aracely (WritersCorps teaching artist), Annie (amazing artist and long-time WritersCorps student), and my 20-year old nephew, Gus. We spent an hour or so talking (...
Continue Reading »
Jul.28.2010 - 6:25 am
First Memory
images.jpg
I'm two and one-half and at the house my father, mother, and I are about to move into. What I see when I remember is my father dismantling a crib in the corner of a small bedroom...
Continue Reading »
May.01.2010 - 9:40 pm
By Heart on 7th Avenue Project
Thanks to Robert Pollie for the time, thought, and heart he put into the By Heart program he assembled and aired on KUSP on April 25. You can listen here. Robert taped Spoon...
Continue Reading »

Comments from Judith

Dec.02.2009 - 9:27 am
In response to: Best Gift Book
The Book of Qualities
I recommend The Book of Qualities by Ruth Gendler.  -- a book whose beautiful words and drawings are a gift to any...
Nov.01.2009 - 10:07 am
In response to: Inside/Outside Envelope Project
thanks for the comment,
thanks for the comment, Michael. Hope you check out the project and the entire website; some great work there.
Sep.23.2009 - 3:56 pm
In response to: By Heart
Thanks
Thanks, Huntington. I certainly intend to include lots of By Heart information on Red Room when the book's actually...
Jun.11.2009 - 9:32 pm
In response to: Elegy for Black Oak Books on Shattuck
Great to read this, Ruth.
Great to read this, Ruth. And really enjoyed our walk-and-talk yesterday.
Feb.26.2009 - 8:01 pm
In response to: "Commercial for Poverty"
Thanks, Jitu
Thank you for writing and sharing these examples. I agree completely with what you write about "poverty as commodity."

Writing

View all»
Article: various
Article: Prisons, Activism, and the Academy—a Roundtable

Published Reviews

View all»
images.jpg
Feb.09.2011
By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives
Published by Head Butler
Much of “By Heart” is about the way that writers become writers. Although their backgrounds and life circumstances are immensely different, both Judith and Spoon are observant,...
Continue Reading »

Audio & Video

View all»
judith-tannenbaum
Video: Book Trailer: By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives
More »
judith-tannenbaum's picture

About Judith

Judith Tannenbaum is a writer and teacher who cares very deeply about a vision and practice of art-making that includes all of us. She has received two California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence grants. The first of these allowed her to teach poetry at San...
Read full bio »

Connections

cheryl-l-snell's picture
Judith has 1 connection
View all »

Causes Judith Tannenbaum Supports

WritersCorps (http://www.writerscorps.org) Prison Creative Arts...