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More and More Jails "Jail is Hell, Hell is Jail, " Carolyn X wrote during her incarceration at Cook County Department of Corrections (CCDOC) in the mid-1970s. She was part of a class taught by Walter Bradford, a Black Arts movement poet who taught in the women's division through a program at Northeastern Illinois University. There had been some difficulties for the class. Before the women put on a reading of their poems for male prisoners, Barbara "Moo-Key" Moreland recalled, "we had to submit our poetry for censoring before it could be read. The system was afraid of something like racial overtones among other things which may have started a jailhouse riot!" 1 Many of the poems, such as "Strung Out" by Carolyn X, were bold, painful, and dark. Channeling gothic horror, she put into words the most chilling moments of a life in a "necropolis of Cement walls": Wake up in the middle of the night in a cold panic Just because you cannot hear your baby breathing Then you remember . . . Jail! 2In another poem, Carolyn X described the joy she had felt when she was free, walking down the street, nursing her son, cuddled with her lover. "I was a woman then, " she mourned. "A Beautiful Black Wo

Author

Melanie D Newport

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781512823509

Updated

2026-03-24