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Title Author Year
To Prisoners Gwendolyn Brooks 2018
Legacy Reginald Dwayne Betts 2018
Prisoners H.D. 2017
John Henry TJ Jarrett 2017
Hikmet: Çankiri Prison, 1938 Joshua Weiner 2016
Laundry Alicia Ostriker 2016
Prison Reginald Dwayne Betts 2016
Persistence of Vision: Televised Confession Solmaz Sharif 2016
From “Citizen,” VI [My brothers are notorious] Claudia Rankine 2014
Fifteen Years of Darkness Liu Xiaobo 2012
A Language Susan Stewart 2016
Farewell John Clare 1920
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Nâzim Hikmet 1986
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison Nâzim Hikmet 1994

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