Prisoner Express creates an opportunity for incarcerated men and women to get information, education and a public forum for creative self-expression through books. Fourteen poets from the program were featured in this summer's issue of Rattle. We'll talk to Gary Fine, the founder of the program, as well as Elizabeth S. Wolf, who's Rattle Chapbook Prize-winning book Did You Know? inspired hundreds of prisoners to write their own chapbooks and encouraged us to participate, too.

Find more at:

https://prisonerexpress.org/

September 6th, 6pm CST SpoFest event with guest author Elizabeth S. Wolf: The link to the Zoom registration is provided inside the FB event page details. Sign up to read in our open mic, and to enter your name in our book raffle!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1105419076847302/

Find Elizabeth's new book at::

https://kelsaybooks.com/products/a-collection-of-partings

As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.

For links to all the past episodes, visit:

https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week's Prompt:

Write a poem about a snippet of conversation you overhear this week.

Next Week's Prompt:

Write a poem about every place you’ve ever lived, how it felt to be there. What made that place different or special, beautiful or terrible? What did you see or eat there? How did it smell? What did you pass on your way home?

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