Book Release Party for Prison/Culture

Thu, May 6 | 7pm | FREE

More than two million individuals are behind bars in U.S. prisons, living in isolation from their families and their communities. Prison/Culture, a new book published by the City Lights Foundation, investigates the culture of incarceration as an integral part of the American experience through a compilation of stunning and often heartrending art by inmates, as well as artists on the outside.

This special book release party and poetry reading features the book's editors-Kevin Chen, Rebeka Rodriguez and SF State's Sharon E. Bliss, Steven Dickison and Mark Dean Johnson-plus contributors Jack Hirschman, Ericka Huggins and Rigo 23.

Prison/Culture is published in conjunction with two exhibits organized by the Fine Arts Gallery and Intersection for the Arts in spring 2008. The Book is available for purchase here.

About the book
Over two million individuals are behind bars in U.S. prisons, living in isolation from their families and their communities. Prison/Cultureinvestigates the culture of incarceration as an integral part of the American experience through a compilation of stunning and often heartrending art by inmates, as well as artists on the outside, such as Sandow Birk and Keith Antar Mason, who address incarceration, criminal profiling, wrongful conviction, prison labor, and the death penalty. The book also includes essays on prisons and prison art by Angela Davis and Mike Davis, and poetry by Amiri Baraka, Ericka Huggins, Luis Rodriguez, Sesshu Foster, and more.

Location

City Lights Books
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94103

More Information

(415) 626-2787 x109