Review: Don’t Shake the Spoon edited by Bed Bogart at Exchange for Change by Jennifer Anderson, Manton Chambers, Roland Dumavor, Caitlin Johnson, Matthew Norwood-Klingstedt, & Jennifer Rojas

In her essay “All I Have, a Lament and a Boast: Why Prisoners Write,” Bell Gale Chevigny (2005) laments, “neither they [the prisoners] nor society were as susceptible to change as I’d dreamed” (246). Yet, like the PEN Prison Writing Program, other programs have also begun to reach out a hand, with notebook and pencil, to those inside prison walls and encourage them to write.

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