After spending more than eight years in prison for a carjacking he committed ... Then you got some love poems, too, you got some poems about the ways in which love doesn’t work, you got some ...

One such criminal was Siripala (21) who was madly in love with a widower ... Many who warm these prison cells pour out their sorrows in the form of poems. Some write about life, some about a ...

We were standing outside an Arizona prison ... and remember how poems create a heart’s history and remind us of home. Selected by Reginald Dwayne Betts The Woman You Love Cuts Apples for ...

love and migration, and his poems range from just a few lines to many pages. A new anthology of his work called Singing at the Gates tells the story of his life in poetry, from prison to renown.

A year later, she was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison, reportedly on the grounds that her poetry promoted “separatism.” Imin’s work is not overtly political, in fact, but her poems ...