"Poetry Kept Me Alive"
Posted March 21st, 2008 by Busboys and Poets
“Poetry is a way of keeping alive and keeping emotionally vivid …. you need to keep feeling … without it you forget you are a human being …” prisoner
“I was a very young angry child … I marched for civil rights as a child… I got angry and militant… I got in trouble - not being able to read and write - I got locked up … then Martin Luther King Jr. died and got angrier - they took away my reading in prison … I got more angry and I did not stop until someone gave me back my book… I started reading and writing… I later formed a writers club”
