Annotated Tears: America's Auschwitz Vol. 1: Creative Writing Session at Folsom State Prison

The following is a collection of poems, the majority of which were written in California State Prison New Folsom's Creative writing class. This class provided an open environment where freedom of expression was encouraged. Our teachers (Spoon Jackson and Judith Tanenbaum) pushed us to challenge ourselves, to bring out the raw emotion of our hurt and pain...even if this expression was hard for some to swallow...for me, having been in prison at the time, for going on ten years, the hurt and p...