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Breakout: Voices from Inside

Monday, November 9 | WNYC Greene Space | NYC

With Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian, Patricia Smith, Jamal Joseph, Marie Ponsot, Lemon Andersen, Sean Wilsey, and other guests

PEN Members and friends read the award-winning work from PEN’s Prison Writing Program at Breakout: Voices from Inside, an installment of WNYC’s signature series “The NEXT New York Conversation.” Donations and much-needed funds raised at the event enable the program to continue its most important mission into the future—helping incarcerated men and women to see themselves in a new way: as writers.

AUDIO & MANUSCRIPTS		PHOTO GALLERY • View the photo gallery on Flickr

Entire event (1:14:03)		Marie Ponsot reads Untitled poem by Scott Walt (3:05)

Introduction by Jessica Hagedorn (2:03)		Eric Bogosian reads “A Journal of a Prisoner” by David Lightner (0:49)

Dawud Gonzalez reads “San Quentin Prison” by David J. Lista (0:59)		Mary Gaitskill reads “Kitchen Workers” by Gail Leonard (7:26)

Eric Bogosian reads “A Journal of a Prisoner” by David Lightner (1:35)		Sean Wilsey reads “LIVE! From Texas Death Row!” by Christopher Best (3:02)

Lemon Andersen reads “Prison Moon” by Jorge Antonio Renaud (1:54)		Patricia Smith reads “Just Another Death” by Christina MacNaughton (4:21)

Sean Wilsey reads Diary entry by Charles Patrick Norman (1:12)		Eric Bogosian reads “LIVE! From Texas Death Row!” by Christopher Best (3:57)

Mary Gaitskill reads Diary entry by Beverly Jaynes (2:07)		Jamal Joseph reads “Lepidoptera or Butterflies” by Richard Miller (5:20)

Lemon Andersen reads Diary entry by Gary Salinas (3:10)		Eric Bogosian reads “A Journal of a Prisoner” by David Lightner (1:27)

Eric Bogosian reads “A Journal of a Prisoner” by David Lightner (1:36)		Lemon Andersen reads Diary entry by William Van Poyck (1:56)

Patricia Smith reads “Panopticon” by Diane Hamill Metzger (0:50)		Dawud Gonzalez reads “San Quentin Prison” by David J. Lista (0:54)

Sean Wilsey reads Diary entry by Dennis Forrest (0:56)		Ken Hartman discusses rehabilitation in a pre-recorded interview (3:07)

Dawud Gonzalez reads Diary entry by John Yarbrough (1:02)		Jackson Taylor talks with Jamal Joseph and Lemon Andersen (19:10)


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