Archive for the Prison Poetry & Other Writings Category
VIPP in the news!!!!!
Posted in Community Outreach, Prison Poetry & Other Writings, Prison Voices, Prisoner Families, Prisoner Outeach with tags Life without Parole, Lifers, Theater of Witness on March 6, 2010 by viprisonprojectFilm Screening – “Living with Life”
Posted in Community Outreach, Prison Poetry & Other Writings, Prison Reform, Prison Voices, Prisoner Outeach with tags Anti-prison, Golden Grove Adult Correctional Center, Life without Parole, Prison Poetry, Prison Reform, Prison Writing, Prisoner Family Support, Prisoner Poetry, Prisoner Rights, Theater of Witness, TOVA on February 24, 2010 by viprisonproject
Incarceration Nation Project – by Thousand Kites
Posted in Prison Poetry & Other Writings on January 15, 2010 by viprisonprojectVirgin Island Prisoners Who Won\’t Cut Hair Held In Isolation In Virginia State Prisons
Posted in Prison Poetry & Other Writings on January 13, 2010 by viprisonprojectPrisoner Outreach Campaign – Christmas Radio Program
Posted in Prison Poetry & Other Writings, Prison Radio, Prison Voices, Prisoner Outeach with tags Keith "Mawuli" Benajmin, Prison Radio, Virgin Islands Prisoners, WSTA Radio Station on January 12, 2010 by viprisonproject
VI Prison Project Team
Prisoner Outreach Campaign – Christmas Radio Program
Posted in Prison Poetry & Other Writings with tags Keith "Mawuli" Benajmin, Prison Radio, Strength to Strength, Virgin Islands Prisoners, WSTA Radio Station on January 12, 2010 by viprisonproject
Keith "Mawuli" Benjamin
VIPP Community Outreach – St. Thomas
Posted in Community Outreach, Prison Poetry & Other Writings, Prisoner Families with tags Community Activism, Prisoner Family Support, Virgin Islands Prisoners on January 12, 2010 by viprisonproject
VIPP Community Outreach - Tutu Park Mall, St. Thomas VI
The Standing Ground #2 – December 12, 2009
Posted in Prison Poetry & Other Writings, Prison Radio, Prison Reform, Prison Voices with tags Golden Grove Adult Correctional Center, Hanif Gereau-Bey, Kim Lyons, Prison Radio, US Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands Prisoners, WDHP 1620 AM, WSTA Radio Station on December 21, 2009 by viprisonprojectThe Standing Ground #1 – December 5, 2009
Posted in Prison Poetry & Other Writings, Prison Radio, Prison Reform, Prison Voices with tags Kim Lyons, Prison Radio, Reef Broadcasting, US Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands Prisoners, WDHP 1620 AM on December 9, 2009 by viprisonproject“Slow Tears”
Posted in Prison Poetry & Other Writings with tags Alie Benjamin, Keen Mountain Correctional Center, Prison Poetry, Prison Writing, Prisoner Poetry, Virgin Islands Prisoners on December 9, 2009 by viprisonprojectI look up
as tears roll by slowly down my cheek
I think about better days
and wonder if I’ll feel that way again
you talk to me with the sweet lovely voice
That I know so very well
always serious, so deep and insightful
as though your always in control
But not today not now
Now I can imagine your so scared
Like for once you don’t have the answer
I think about you thinking deep about what you always do
Hoping to understand and why you said those things you did
I wonder for a moment
If I shall wake in the morning and be revealed
you look at me
with a confusion I have never seen.
Slowly pulls me toward you and wipe the tears
from my cheek!!!
– Alie Benjamin
Virgin Islands Prisoner at Keen Mountain Correctional Center
Oakwood, VA
VI Prison Project Press 