Posts by Ryan Clover
Spring 21 Online Prisoner Express Art Show
The opening date is May 27th. Link to be posted on the PE homepage on May 27th. At Prisoner Express, we receive creative writing, art, and journals from incarcerated men and women from across the nation. Their writing and art share perspectives and offer valuable insights into the current prison system. This year our annual…
Read MoreArt Knows Winter 2020 – 2021
Greetings! I hope this newsletter finds you well and keeping safe! The last newsletter (summer 2020) focused on art in the time of pandemics. Obviously, we cannot yet leave the pandemic behind, but we can change the channel for a respite. This newsletter will focus on art that has many names; primitive art, outsider art,…
Read MoreVolunteer with Online Program!
Prisoner Express is now offering an online volunteer hub with regular events, instructions for writing prisoners, and updates on the digital archive for prisoner writing! This is helping us achieve our goal to provide opportunities to share, heal, and connect as human beings. Since March 2020 we have been unable to access our regular space…
Read MorePoetry Anthology #23
Hundreds of prisoners send in thousands of poems to be considered in every Prisoner Express Poetry Anthology. Every participant who submits a poem is mailed a copy of the anthology. Seeing their work in print, even knowing someone is reading their words has a tremendous impact on inspiring incarcerated men and women to reflect and…
Read MorePoetry Anthology #21
Prisoner Express [PE] showcases some of the poetry submitted by the men and women who participate in our poetry writing program. A new volume is published every six months. More than 400 poets submitted entries for consideration, and our team of volunteers read through the submissions and create a volume that speaks to them. As…
Read MorePrisoner Express Summer 19 Newsletter
Prisoner Express Summer 19 Newsletter is being mailed to approx 4000 participants in prisons all around the US. Every issue has stories poems and art submitted by the prisoners participating in our distance learning programs. Every issue of the newsletter we mail to prisoners brings us a cascade of responses letting us know at PE…
Read MorePrisoner Express director featured on eTown Radio!
We’re very excited to announce that Prisoner Express founder and director Gary Fine flown out to Colorado to be featured on an esteemed live radio program, eTown. You can listen to the episode on their website, or from their podcast. If you’re not familiar with Gary’s story, his work on the programs, etc… this is…
Read MoreCorrespondence Course: PE Featured in Cornell Alumni Magazine
Through a CU-based program, student volunteers enrich the lives of prison inmates nationwide See the original article here: http://cornellalumnimagazine.com/correspondence-course/ Reposted from Cornell Alumni Magazine At 5 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon in April, about a dozen student volunteers filtered into Anabel Taylor Hall’s Durland Alternatives Library, turning the usually quiet study space into a bustle…
Read MorePlasmodesmata: Channels to exchange information between cells
Hello everyone! I am excited to share the third issue of our science journal, Plasmodesmata, with you. For those of you that are new, plasmodesmata (singular: plasmodesma) are microscopic tunnels that form between two neighboring plant cells that allow the exchange of information and other materials. They are very tiny, usually less than 100…
Read MoreBook from Prisoner Express inspired White Power group to disavow Nazism
Last week an attorney called to make a donation. We learned that his client, a leader of a prison white power group ordered all his gang’s members to remove swastika tattoos. What would catalyze this change of heart? At some point in time, he received a book from Prisoner Express. Volunteers choose the books in…
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