The author, who is also associate editor for the Angolite magazine, won an honorable mention for this essay in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
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Kaleidoscope Reprise
This poem received second prize for poetry in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
Posted inInterview
‘A make-believe person in a make-believe world’
“I keep paper and pen with me at all times because, like the most dynamic dreams, creativity is as wispy as Louisiana mist and dissipates quickly if not seized,” writes John Corley, associate editor of the Angolite, who says that, in his mind, he still lives in 1989, ‘the year I fell.’
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‘Resentment is not inevitable’
“I am not a person who came to prison and became a writer, I am a writer who happened to come to prison.”
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Top debate student couldn’t sway School Board to keep his school open
Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men closed Friday, and its students are now frantically trying to find spots to finish out the school year. Parents say that the school’s mid-year closing was a tragedy that could have been foreseen – and prevented.
Posted inEnvironment
Alabo Wharf deal gets slippery
In the Holy Cross Neighborhood, residents obtain Port emails showing that a modest grain terminal at the Alabo Wharf includes more phases—and now includes crude sunflower oil, shipped in from Turkey.
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 261: ‘A moment in the year’
The Lens staffers reflect on our work, including favorite stories, in 2024 and look ahead to 2025.
Posted inHealth
Fighting Act 246 in court
As advocates and lawyers file suit against the state, asking a judge to bar the reclassification of drugs used for medication abortion, women seeking IUDs and needing prenatal care say that they are also feeling the effects of the new law.
Posted inEnvironment
City Council committee allows Entergy New Orleans to sell its natural gas system
Though Councilmembers were swayed by job creation, critics said that the jobs pale in comparison to the rate increases and environmental effects that Orleans residents will now shoulder.