TY - BOOK AU - Meissner,Caits AU - Betts,Reginald Dwayne ED - EBSCOhost ED - PEN America, TI - The sentences that create us: crafting a writer's life in prison SN - 9781642596779 (electronic bk.) AV - PS508.P7 S46 2022 U1 - 810.8/09206927 23 KW - Prisoners' writings, American KW - Prisoners KW - Literary collections KW - African American prisoners KW - Imprisonment KW - Prisons KW - Rhetoric N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword; by Reginald Dwayne Betts --; Editor's note: How to read this book; by Caits Messner --; PEN prison writing: Then and now, in and out; by Susan Rosenberg --; Part I; Foundations of Creative Writing; On poetry; by Luis J. Rodriguez --; On fiction; by Ryan Gattis --; On nonfiction memoir; by Patrick O'Neil --; On dramatic theater; by Sarah Shourd --; On screenwriting; by Alexa Alemanni --; On graphic narrative; by Andy Warner --; On journalism; edited by Jaeah Lee, interviews and research by Kate Cammell --; A guide to grammar and punctuation; by Chris Daley --; After grammar : learning how to transition; by Emile DeWeaver --; Re-vision; by Mitchell S. Jackson --; Part II; Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison; Introduction; by Caits Meissner with Elizabeth Hawes --; The price of remaining human; by Thomas Bartlett Whitaker --; The most important thing (and a few other rules); by Curtis Dawkins --; On publishing from prison; by Saint James Harris Wood --; Copyright protection in brief; by Lateef Mtima, JD, and John R. Whitman, PhD --; Burn the spot : on writing about people you know; by Piper Kerman --; The power of grieving in words; by Vivian D. Nixon --; And still I write : creative expression for self-advocacy; by Alejo Rodriguez --; Every story needs hope : why you should write about prison; by Derek R. Trumbo Sr. --; Start and end with the feeling of home : how I developed my poetry manuscript; by Louise K. Waakaa'igan --; On writing and staging a play in prison; by Sterling Cunio --; Gift culture : on collaborating through the walls; by Spoon Jackson --; As for the rest of us : how to win a fellowship with no support; by Arthur Longworth --; "Prison writer" : a meditation on histories and the sentences that create them; by Justin Rovillos Monson --; Part III; On Building Writing Community; Introduction; by Caits Meissner --; On building prison writing communities; by Zeke Caligiuri --; Remix the plan, return to the purpose : how to center participant storytelling in writing workshops; by Nicole Shawn Junior --; No pen or paper required : the art and practice of community storytelling; by Casey Donahue --; Part IV; Writing Exercises; Translating to the page; by Doran Larson --; On using small stories to illuminate big issues; by Lauren Kessler --; Writing the poem of the moment; by Ellen Bass --; Attention to memory; by Jennifer Bowen --; The inherent magic of objects; by T Kira Mahealani Madden --; Apple is for identity and other prompts; by Anderson Smith --; Personifying location; by Johnny Kovatch --; A letter to my ancestors; by Raquel Almazan --; Imagining worlds : from page to stage; by Ashley Hamilton --; Workshop solitaire : using questions to strengthen a story; by J. D. Mathes --; Epilogue: A writing life in community -- from inside out; by Randall Horton; Electronic reproduction; Ipswich, MA; Available via World Wide Web UR - https://login.proxy.library.nd.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2919048 ER -