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Volunteer 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 MoreFriends of the Library Booksale Partners with Prisoner Express to fulfill book requests, and You can Help!
Wed 10/28, Saturday 10/31 and Sunday 11/1 Each year, hundreds of people browse through books at the Friends of the Library Booksale. In fact, it’s one of the largest in the country. Each year, hundreds of incarcerated people all over the United States send requests for books to Prisoner Express (PE), an organization that works…
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 MoreFriends of the Library Booksale Partners with Prisoner Express to fulfill book requests, and You can Help!
Each year, hundreds of people browse through books at the Friends of the Library Booksale. In fact, it’s one of the largest in the country. Each year, hundreds of incarcerated people all over the United States send requests for books to Prisoner Express (PE), an organization that works to fill these requests. PE depends entirely…
Read MoreCommunity Across Cells
The two following poems are some of the first to be chosen for the Volume 23 of the Prisoner Express Poetry Anthology. Jointly they expose the painfully obvious and the obscured realities of what living life—for whatever amount of time—between the walls of a cell are like. Thank you to all who have contributed to…
Read MoreVoices from Prisons Across the Country, A Zoom Poetry Reading!
Voices from Prisons Across the Country Join us to experience the power of poetry and prose submitted to the on-campus nonprofit, Prisoner Express, from incarcerated individuals across the US. Students working with Prisoner Express will read poetry and theme writings, discuss the volunteer opportunities that are available, and share some of the insights and personal growth they have gained while working…
Read MorePrisoner Express Art @ MoMA!
MoMA PS 1 is presenting a major exhibition of prison art from April 5 through August 25: “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” This exhibition explores art and mass incarceration, featuring art made by 35 artists in prisons and persons whose life has been impacted by incarceration. The exhibition is in conjunction…
Read MorePrisoner Express Winter 2020 Newsletter
Discover the humanity of incarcerated men and women through their creative writing and art in this winter edition of our biannual newsletter. This newsletter also contains a description of all the 10 programs PE is offering this cycle, including courses in financial literacy, songwriting, mediation and a book club featuring the novel Slaughterhouse-five. The prisoner…
Read MoreProgram Pitch: Art ?
The arts program is led every Monday night by Krinal T., a freshman psychology major at Cornell. Below, she shares with us what the program is all about and how to get involved. What is the art program? How does it work? The art program provides a platform for incarcerated artists to showcase their…
Read MoreProgram Pitch: Book Packing ??
On Monday evenings, senior biological sciences major Melissa Z. leads the book packing program for Prisoner Express. 10-15 student volunteers come in every week for two hours to prepare book packages for prisoners across the country. Below, Melissa shares with us what the program is all about and how to get involved. What is…
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