(Original recording made in 2001)
Twenty-five years ago, Judith Tannenbaum made her sole appearance on the program
to talk about her memoir "Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry
at San Quentin." Millions of Americans are incarcerated, out of sight. Prisons are not pleasant places.
In this powerful book, Judith Tannenbaum describes what it was
like to work with men who were mostly locked up forever, until they
died. Under her tutelage, some of them blossomed as poets.
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