A new website on prison poetry was launched this week with assistance from a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Prisonpoetryworkshop.org debuted online this week and features readings of poems written by incarcerated inmates. Among the titles available to listen to on the site are: “Ghetto Bastard”, “Fenced Jewels” and “A Gangster’s Prayer”.
“It’s to focus on a literary form that is often overlooked and unrecognized in America,” Nick Szuberla, Executive Producer of prisonpoetryworkshop.org told CNSNews.com.
“The website will feature weekly podcasts and 8 national radio programs from different cities.”
The $75,000 grant for the radio series and website was awarded through the NEA’s Arts in Media program. Funding started in May of 2012 and is set to continue through September of 2013.
The podcasts currently on the website feature recordings of callers reading the poetry of prisoners into an answering machine.
Read more.