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A Place to Stand is the authorized story of Jimmy Santiago Baca’s transformation from a functionally illiterate convict to an award-winning poet, novelist and screenwriter.

A Place to Stand follows Jimmy’s path from Estancia,…

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Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on July 2, 2012 at 3:06pm — No Comments

Poet Laureate Natasha Trethaway reflects on Incarceration in America

A New Poet Laureate by Rebecca Foresman for The New Yorker, June 10, 2012

Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the collection “Native Guard,” was named U.S. Poet Laureate last Wednesday. Her poetic voice has deftly positioned her to inherit the…

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Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on June 11, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Teaching Meditation at Mokotów Prison in Warsaw, Poland

Today, I taught a meditation program at Mokotów Prison, the infamous Warsaw prison where the Gestapo detained, tortured and killed political prisoners during World War II and where the KGP and Polish communists detained, tortured and killed political prisoners from 1945 to 1955. At the street side entrance on a busy street in Warsaw, there is a memorial to the political prisoners killed there by the Nazis and the communists. This is a reflection of the tortured history of Poland,… Continue

Added by Fleet Maull on November 10, 2010 at 12:09pm — No Comments

Prison Work in Poland

With the help of my friends Andrzej Krajeski and Rober Sudol, I led meditation workshop for about 30 prisoners in their 20's and 30's at a large jail outside of Warsaw, Poland near the airport. We talked about how our conditioning drives our behaviors unconsciously until we awaken an awareness that can see the operation of this conditioned mind and not go along with it, awareness that leads to new choices and freedom. We practiced body scan, close placement mindfulness and counting breaths… Continue

Added by Fleet Maull on November 9, 2010 at 12:07pm — No Comments

Poetic Justice Project

2010 PRISON TOWN TOUR

Photo by Barry Wisdom

What…

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Added by Fleet Maull on September 13, 2010 at 7:49pm — No Comments

Poem from a prisoner

Written by M. S., Prisoner in CA





Statistically Proven

Another child born in poverty; another high powered assault

Rifle on inner city streets; another child dies by "fate"

Another statistic!

Another woman beaten; another woman raped;

Another crime committed; another statistic!

Another welfare check; another homeless family;

Another potential surgeon, superstar, scientists and senator addicted

To drugs; another lost hope; another broken… Continue

Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on January 27, 2009 at 4:02pm — 1 Comment

Embrace your struggle

The lotus
must push through the mud
in order to bloom

The butterfly
must struggle out of the cocoon
in order to fly

So, too, must we
keep moving forward
onward
through the darkness
through the pain
one foot
in front of the other
one moment at a time

in order to reach
the blessed refuge
of the light

Added by Fa Liang on August 11, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

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