prison poetry on Jim Lehrer Newshour
Monday, June 16th, 2008Richard Shelton -- whose excellent Crossing the Yard I praised in a blog post a couple weeks ago -- is featured tonight on The Jim Lehrer NewsHour along with his prison workshop. A decent first look at what this work is; some fine poetry and interviews with the prison poets; and Richard speaks so wisely, beautifully, and from his heart.
You can watch the segment on the And check out visible on the desks in the NewsHour segment.