Hettie jones writer workshop

Jones is a former chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and from conducted a writing workshop at New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional..

by Bill Ectric

This article originally appeared on Literary Kicks, May 1, 2008

In New York’s Greenwich Village, from 1957 to 1963, poets Hettie Jones and her then-husband LeRoi Jones (who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka) published a magazine called Yugen, showcasing poetry and writings by Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Philip Whalen, and others.

Hettie also started Totem Press, which published poets such as Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder, Frank O’Hara, and Edward Dorn.

A few years ago, the Bedford Hills Workshop gave us More in than out with this second collection, Hettie Jones' group sings so tellingly, so irresistibly.

She has taught poetry, fiction, and memoir in colleges and community settings, and from until ran a weekly writing workshop at New York State's.

Jones is a former chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and from conducted a writing workshop at New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional.

Students in this workshop will begin to create a personal memoir in the context of its own time and place.

Jones was a former chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and from to she ran a writing workshop at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for.

Jones is currently involved with PEN American Center’s Prison Writing Committee and teaches writing at the New School in New York. She also runs a writing workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills.

The Bedford Hills workshop has published two books of poetry, More In Than Out and Aliens At the Border. I purchased a copy of Aliens at the Border and I agree with B