Robert Pollock

Home Prison & Justice Writing Works of Justice The Book of Judith: Honoring Judith Tannenbaum (1947-2019) Two years ago, New Village Press published The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts Through Poetry, an anthology in remembrance of teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum, who dedicated her life to students in and out of prison. Tannenbaum’s career in education goes back to 1970, when she began teaching writing and literature in Berkeley, California.

In November 2023, Coffee House Press released ⁠American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion⁠⁠, an anthology of essays edited by a collective of incarcerated writers involved in the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. The volume interrogates the complexity and fluidity of class and caste systems in the United States, and includes transcribed conversations of the editors discussing each essay. In the latest Works of Justice podcast, two of the editors, C.

Home Michigan & Me I tried writing in the county jail, but it was too intense. The events that had landed me there, the ones I was trying to write about, were much too fresh.