incarceration
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On asymmetry and ‘The Hatred of Poetry.’
Like you, the people in jail have stories to tell.
45, agitation for change, asymmetry, asymmetry of attention, attention, attention economy, Ben Lerner, By Any Measure, county jail, criminal justice, dipole moment, Donald Trump, grammar, hate crime, Hatred of Poetry, idiosynchratic grammar, imprisonment, In Between Poems, incarceration, Jack Gilbert, jail poetry, Jana Prikryl, lockdown, lyric, lyric poems, lyrical poetry, mass incarceration, MFA, Orlando shooting, Philip Warren Anderson, physics, physics of poetry, physics of symmetry, plea for attention, poet, poetry, prison poetry, reading poetry in jail, rehab, rehabilitation, school to prison pipeline, symmetry, teaching in jail, teaching poetry, terrorism, The After Party, The Hatred of Poetry, the internet, the power of words, Thirty Thousand Islands, waning attention spans, why read poetry, why water flows, why write poetry, writing poetry in jail, [jumpsuits]
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On Tao Lin’s ‘Trip,’ targeted advertising, and finding scraps of life in books.
Psychedelics could help you change your life, but our government insists that they have “no accepted medical use.”
A Really Good Day, abusive relationships, addiction, advertising, Ayelet Waldman, Best of Photojournalism, better living through chemistry, body, book review, business cards, capitalism, corporations, dimethyl tryptamine, ditch your phone, DMT, domestic violence, drug rehab, drug use, drugs, entheogens, finding shit in books, hallucinogens, healing power of nature, healing power of psychedelics, incarceration, inner space, jail, jail poetry, LSD, lysergic acid, lysergic acid diethyl amide, magic mushrooms, Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project, mind, murder, mushrooms, nature, Pages to Prisoners, Perdue Meats, pharmacology, photography, prison, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelics, psychonaut, recovery, rehab, rehabilitation, relapse, review, scientific method, self-discovery through drugs, sending books to prisoners, shrooms, slaughterhouse, smartphone addiction, spirit, state-mandated rehab, stuff inside books, Tao Lin, teaching in jail, Terrance McKenna, trip, tripping, tryptamines
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On protest, the Supreme Court, and autocratic minority rule.
I was planning an essay on cell phones and surveillance. The central thesis was that our Supreme Court is a massively flawed institution. Many of our current Supreme Court justices are both willfully ignorant and opportunistically illogical. This set of people are not exceptionally knowledgeable, nor are they particularly clever. But we have given them…
45, changing demographics of the United States, detention centers, Donald Trump, free market, gerrymandering, hate machines, human migration, immigration, immigration detention centers, incarceration, Issac Bailey, migration, minority control, murder, My Brother Moochie, political power, PotUS, property rights, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court opinions, supressing influence, Trump, U.S. politics, United States, violence, wilful ignorance, wrenching apart families
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On gateway drugs.
Being lied to is a gateway to rebellion.
A Romance, addiction, alcohol, alcoholism, altered consciousness, bars, Bruce Weigl, childhood, children, dangerous drugs, depression, dizziness, dizzy, drug abuse, drug research, drug use, drugs, ecstasy, gateway drugs, incarceration, insomnia, jail, jail poetry, laws, lying, marijuana, mass incarceration, MDMA, parenting, poem, poetry, pot, PTSD, sleep disorder, sleep disturbance, spinning, teaching in jail, veterans, War on Drugs, which drugs are most dangerous, which drugs cause most harm
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On loneliness.
It’s well known that loneliness wrecks brains … so why are we imposing it on the people we expect better behavior from?
addiction, animal welfare, biomedical research, coke, cooperation, crime, crime deterrence, Daniel Weary, David Grimm, dendritic growth, evolution, evolution of cooperation, health risks of incarceration, heroin, imposed loneliness, incarceration, isolation, jail, John-Michael Bloomquist, lab animals, lab mouse, laboratory animals, loneliness, loneliness epidemic, mass incarceration, meth, mice, mouse, neuron growth, parole, parole officer, parole violation, pot, probation, punishing defectors, punishment, rehab, rehabilitation, research animals, science, Surgeon General, The Prodigal’s Return, Vivek Murthy, War on Drugs
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On bread.
Bread is pretty amazing. But it shouldn’t be anybody’s *only* therapeutic resource.
A Note of Caution Regarding Sentencing Reform, Adam, Attica, Blood in the Water, bread, bread craft, bread sculpture, cardboard piano, chess set made of bread, cooked food, Demetrius Cunningham, depression, deprivation, ear gauge, Eden, Emily Wilson, Eve, expulsion from Eden, Fire, Freedom Riders, Heather Ann Thompson, Hell is a Very Small Place, history of incarceration, Homer, How to Create Madness in Prison, human mortality, incarceration, jail, jail food, jail meals, jail poetry, Laestrygonia, mass incarceration, netsuke, nothing works, Odysseus, poetry, prison, prison education, prison poetry, prison reform, rehab, rehabilitation, Robert Martinson, Solidarity under Close Confinement, suicide, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, Terry Kupers, The Odyssey, therapy, tree of knowledge of good and evil, tree of life, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, wasted ingenuity, What Works, Yahweh, yeast, yeasted bread
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On Matthew Walker’s ‘Why We Sleep.’
We’re asking addicts to learn whole new ways of living … and expect them to do it while utterly sleep deprived in jail.
cocoffala, Communion of the Saints, enhanced interrogation, false confessions, heroin, incarceration, jail, jail poetry, learning, mass incarceration, Matthew Walker, Menachem Begin, methamphetamine, Monster House Press, opiates, Poems from the Jail Dorm, poetry, prison, prison poetry, probation, sleep, sleep deprivation, sleep deprived, sleep spindles, The Story of a Prisoner in Russia, torture, White Nights, why we sleep, William Booker
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On smell.
Humans actually smell pretty well … and scents affect our emotional wellbeing. Shouldn’t we want places of healing to smell good?
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On addiction, crime, Buddhism, and exorcism.
If we want people to heal, we shouldn’t keep them inside bleak boxes.
abuse, addiction, agency, Buddhism, child molesters, Demon, demons, drug dealers, exorcism, free will, gang murder, Harvard commencement, hurt people hurt people, I Will Find You, incarceration, J.K. Rowling, jail, Jason Shiga, Joanna Conners, liberation rite, mythology, nurture, parenting, penitence, poverty, prison, prison rape, Rowling, sex offenders, solitary, Tibetan mythology, trauma
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On changing a life.
We can’t be *forced* to change … & sometimes it takes a jolt to realize that we want to.
AA, addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, Becoming Ms. Burton, Cari Lynn, drug use, drugs, getting sober, halfway houses, heroin, I Felt Your Presence in the Absence of Time, incarceration, jail, jail dormitory, John-Michael Bloomquist, junk, Max E., meth, methamphetamine, Monster House Press, New Leaf, New Leaf New Life, opiates, Poems from the Jail Dorm, poetry, prison poetry, recovery, rehab, release from prison, San Diego 1985, shame, sober, Susan Burton, teaching, teaching in jail
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