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The Sentences That Create Us : crafting a writer's life in prison.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric.
- Prisoners' writings, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Copyright
- Contents
- About PEN America
- Foreword
- Editor's Note: How to Read This Book
- PEN Prison Writing: Then and Now, In and Out
- Part I: Foundations of Creative Writing
- On Poetry
- On Fiction
- On Nonfiction Memoir
- On Dramatic Theater
- On Screenwriting
- On Graphic Narrative
- On Journalism
- The Prison Journalism Project's Quick Journalism Reference Guide
- A Guide to Grammar and Punctuation
- After Grammar: Learning How to Transition
- Re-Vision
- Part II: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison
- Introduction
- The Price of Remaining Human
- The Most Important Thing (and a Few Other Rules)
- On Publishing from Prison
- Copyright Protection in Brief
- Burn the Spot: On Writing about People You Know
- The Power of Grieving in Words
- And Still I Write: Creative Expression for Self-Advocacy
- Every Story Needs Hope: Why You Should Write about Prison
- Start and End with the Feeling of Home: How I Developed My Poetry Manuscript
- On Writing and Staging a Play in Prison
- Gift Culture: On Collaborating through the Walls
- As for the Rest of Us: How to Win a Fellowship with No Support
- "Prison Writer": A Meditation on Histories and the Sentences that Create Them
- Part III: On Building Writing Community
- On Building Prison Writing Communities
- Remix the Plan, Return to the Purpose: How to Center Participant Storytelling in Writing Workshops
- No Pen or Paper Required: The Art and Practice of Community Storytelling
- Part IV: Writing Exercises
- Translating to the Page
- On Using Small Stories to Illuminate Big Issues
- Writing the Poem of the Moment
- Attention to Memory
- The Inherent Magic of Objects
- Apple Is for Identity and Other Prompts
- Personifying Location
- A Letter to My Ancestors
- Imagining Worlds: From Page to Stage
- Workshop Solitaire: Using Questions to Strengthen a Story
- Epilogue: A Writing Life in Community-from Inside Out
- Further Reading
- Further Resources
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Permissions
- Index
- Back Cover
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Meissner, Caits The Sentences That Create Us
- ISBN:
- 9781642596779
- 1642596779
- Publisher Number:
- 99989449369
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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