Posts Tagged ‘prison poems’

Incarceration Nation

Punishment
is the most potent stimulus
of violence
nothing corrodes the soul
as thoroughly as
vengeance.

(p.25, Hartnett)

Stephen John Hartnett, poet, musician, and prison activist, presents a collection of prison poems in varying tones and subjects in Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror. It is available for purchase on Amazon. Some excerpts are available to read for freeĀ  on Google Books.

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