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Still Life

Photo by Veejay Villafranca, text by Lian Sing

Diversity Statement

By Gustav Parker Hibbett

Girls Like You

By Annell López

[To the noise of rain, pushing sleep…]

Dimitri Psurtsev, translated by Philip Metres

Thomas Bartlett Whitaker

Thomas Bartlett Whitaker is serving a life sentence in Texas. He spent eleven years on Texas’s Death Row before being granted clemency in February 2018. After entering prison, he earned an undergraduate degree, and he completed his master’s degree during his last months on Death Row. He has won first place three times for fiction and essay in the PEN Prison Writing Contest, and he received an inaugural PEN Writing for Justice Fellowship in 2018. More than 150 pieces of his writing have been published on Minutes Before Six, the nonprofit website project he founded in 2007 upon his arrival in prison.
Essay PoliticsUSA

Secret Solitary

By Thomas Bartlett Whitaker June 28, 2022
A prisoner with a life sentence investigates a solitary confinement coverup in Texas prisons.
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