In Our Own Words: Writing From Parchman Prison
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Author(s)Louis Bourgeois
PublisherVOX PRESS
ISBN / ASIN0980194407
ISBN-139780980194401
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,501,300
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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In Our Own Words is a collection of prison writing from Vox's Prison Writes Initiative (PWI). The program is a Creative Writing program set-up for Mississippi inmates, a first of its kind in the state. The stories in the book are from inmates of Parchman Farm, Mississippi's oldest and only maximum security prison. The book is edited by VOX's editor and program director of the PWI, the poet Louis Bourgeois.
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