Carolyn Baxter
Carolyn Baxter (born 1953)[1] is an African-American poet, playwright, and musician.[2][3][4] Baxter is from Harlem, New York. She was a participant in the Black Panthers School Breakfast Program. Baxter was formerly incarcerated at the New York City Correctional Institute for Women at Rikers Island.[5] Her writings are considered a part of the Prison Art's Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.[6][7]
Biography[edit]
Baxter worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP and was a member of the Black Panthers Party. She also worked for the New York City Board of Education in programs for ex-offenders and adolescent offenders.[8] Baxter is a member of the United Federation for Teachers, and a member of ASCAP and SAG/A.F.T.R.A The Screen and Television Performers. She plays conga/bass.[citation needed]
Baxter was formerly incarcerated at the New York City Correctional Institute for Women at Rikers Island.[5] There, she joined the Free Space Writing Project. Her writings are considered a part of the Prison Art's Movement of the 1970s and 1980s.[6][7] Baxter served time with the singer/poet Marilyn Buck.[9] Baxter attended BARD College after her incarceration.[10]
Brown University did an exhibit titled, Poetry in the Time of Mass Incarceration, which displayed Baxter's writings in the John Hay Library's Willis Reading Room at Brown from September 2015 – January 4, 2016.[11] Her work has been used in studies of the prison industrial complex.[12]
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- Prison Solitary and Other Free Government Services (Greenfield Review Press, 1979)
Anthologies[edit]
- 20th Century Prison Writings (Penguin/Putnam, 1998)[13]
- The Light from Another Country (Greenfield Review Press, 1984),
- Wall Tappings Vol 1 (Feminist Press, 1986)[8]
- Wall Tappings Vol 2 (Feminist Press, 2005)
References[edit]
- ^ Franklin, Howard Bruce (1998). Prison Writing in 20th-century America. Penguin. ISBN 9780140273052.
- ^ "Carolyn Baxter". Brown University.
- ^ "Carolyn Baxter". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ^ Bernstein, Lee (2010). America is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807833872.
- ^ a b "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ^ a b Collins, Lisa Gail; Crawford, Margo Natalie (2006-05-16). New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. Rutgers University Press. p. 297. ISBN 9780813541075.
carolyn baxter incarceration.
- ^ a b Bernstein, L (2006-01-01), Prison writers and the Black Arts Movement, pp. 297–316, retrieved 2018-08-04
- ^ a b Scheffler, Judith A. (2002). Wall Tappings: An International Anthology of Women's Prison Writings, 200 to the Present. Feminist Press at CUNY. p. 106. ISBN 9781558612730.
carolyn baxter writer interview.
- ^ "Wild Poppies: A Tribute to Marilyn Buck" (PDF). News from the Freedom Archives.
- ^ Franklin, H. Bruce (2008). "The Inside Stories of the Global American Prison". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 50 (3): 235–242. doi:10.1353/tsl.0.0008. JSTOR 40755510. S2CID 152317937.
- ^ "About - Poetry from the Age of Mass Incarceration". library.brown.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
- ^ "The Effect of Prison Crowding on Behavior" (PDF). National Institute of Justice.
- ^ Franklin, Howard Bruce (1998). Prison Writing in 20th-century America. Penguin. ISBN 9780140273052.
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