WRITING & SPOKEN WORD
Writing:
In select courses, PNAP students work with their instructors to develop creative and scholarly writing for publication in class anthologies. These self-published booklets are distributed to the authors at Stateville and are shared by PNAP at our exhibitions and events and on our website. PDFs of PNAP anthologies can be viewed and downloaded below.
Please contact PNAP to inquire about use of these materials at contactpnap@gmail.com.
Brothers of the Narrative
2014
Designer: Elizabeth Tanner
Printed by: Beautiful Matter
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My Confined Space, My Workstation
2014
Faculty: Lindsay Garbutt, Ydalmi Noriega, Kimberly Reyes, Fred Sasaki, Ashley Sheehan, and Nuria Sheehan
Editors: Snežana Žabić and Nadya Pittendrigh
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Students Reflect
2015
Faculty: Erica Meiners and Jill Petty
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Latinos: The Struggle is Real
2015
Faculty: Christina Gómez
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Political Theory at Stateville
2015
Faculty: Lucy Cane and Anna Terwiel
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Let Brotherly Love Continue
2015
Faculty: Erica Meiners and Amy Partridge
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Reading and Writing Our Lives: Stories and Commentary from Stateville Prison
2015
Faculty: Tim Barnett
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Reflections on Criminalization and Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Essays by Black Men
2015
Faculty: Beth Richie
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Weight of Rage
2015
Faculty: Marvin Tate
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Imagine: Words and Images from Inside
2016
Faculty: Jason LaFountain
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Freedom Dreams
2016
Editor: Alice Kim
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The Meaning and Limits of Rights
2017
Faculty: Lucy Cane
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Education from the Public to the Personal
2017
Faculty: Tess Landon
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Unchained Words of Cell Block Poets
2017
Faculty: Tara Betts
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Shakespeare Re-imaginings Voices
2018
Faculty: Wendy Wall
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Spoken Word:
Poets read their works from a class taught by staff from the Poetry Foundation (Fred Sasaki, Lindsay Garbutt, Ydalmi Noriega, Ashley Sheehan, and Nuria Sheehan). In the audio, authors state their names and the titles of their works. 2012.
Audio of mixed sound and poetry developed in a class taught by Marvin Tate and supported by the Poetry Foundation. PNAP was not able to record to poets at the prison, so the work is read by Marvin Tate and Baylee Champion. Joe Jeffers mixed the sound. 2015.
Tracks:
Gambler’s Remorse by Devon Kenon
Forget What You Heard and Catch What I’m Saying by Willie Banks (co-produced with Mikolaj Szatko)
Guns by Kristian Delgado
Is That Jazz by A. M. Spaulding
Grey by Andre Patterson (co-produced with Jaime Branch on keys)
Nothing by Seneca Smith
Parole Me in the Afterlife by Patrick Pursley
Play on Player by Henry Lovett
Lost in Time by Yastn Abdul Shakur
Requiem by Devon Kenon
Untitled by Seneca Smith
Psycho by Andre Patterson (co-produced with Khallee Glen Standberry-Lois and Jermaine Harris on additional vocals)
Why I Matter by Michael Johnson
The audio below was recorded for the 2022 PNAP Gala The Future is Now. Three PNAP students were invited to record their thoughts on their relationship with PNAP to be shared with outside community members. The Rebirth of Sound studio collaborated with us to create these recordings.