John Corley, Author at The Lens

Dark Resurrection

April 4, 2025 Updated April 2, 2025

Prisoners come to terms with the return of capital punishment in Louisiana.

Kaleidoscope Reprise

January 2, 2025 Updated December 30, 2024

This poem received second prize for poetry in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.

‘Servitude’

January 2, 2025 Updated December 30, 2024

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.