Download: Volume 4 (Fall 2011)

Editorial Staff: Adina Rubin-Budick, Emily Foreman, Willie Marshall, Jack Newton, Caitlin Parker, Eleni Konstantopoulos, Mimi McKenna, Rachel Harmon, Zoe Piccolo.

Table of Contents

The Bridges of Cayuga County – Michael Rhynes (p. 6)
The Valkyrie – Lucas Whaley (p. 7)
The Fate Loom – Cyril Winebrenner (p. 8)
A Flower Forgotten – Latasio A. Cendales (p. 9)
As I Walk Through Life – Michael Johnson (p. 10)
Forgive Me – Jermaine West (p. 12)
Redundant Seasons – William Barnes (p. 13)
Like A Bridge… – Paris E. Whitfield (p. 14)
Hot Water – Michael Shane Hale (p. 16)
Exiled to Within – Joshua J. Keppen (p. 18)
Dear Ghetto – David Bendezu (p. 19)
Man in the Mirror – Marlon David Black (p. 20)
What Am I? – James M. Squires (p. 22)
Sentenced to Life at 15 – Michael Leggett (p. 23)
Freedom? – Christopher Roupp (p. 24)
Bondage – Kavlin Harmon (p. 25)
Claustrophobic – Richard Jones (p. 26)
Mirror – Gregory J. Robinson (p. 27)

Download: Volume 3 (Spring 2011)

Artists: Residents at Lansing Residential Center and MacCormick
Editors: Esther Kwan and Adina Rubin-Budick
Layout: Michael Hong and Esther Kwan

Table of Contents

Untitled – Latasio A. Cendales (p. 6)
A Reliquary for Ardor – Joshua J. Keppen (p. 7)
Auburn Haiku – Shane Kalb et al. (p. 8)
Untitled – Anonymous (p. 9)
The Slaughter of Innocents – Rob Cumberland (p. 10)
Bedtime Story – Malik Sheppard (p. 11)
Am I complaining too much? – David Bendezu (p. 12)
People just don’t know… – Michael Shane Hale (p. 13)
Is Innocence Irrelevant? – Danny Rincon (p. 14)
V-8 Eulogy – Lucas Whaley (p. 15)
Confessions – Jermaine West (p. 16)
Lovepisode – E. Paris Whitfield (p. 18)
The Path – Akintunde Mills (p. 19)
The Day Jan Wozelwick Saved the Planet Earth by Letting Her Hair Grow – Michael S. Boyd (p. 20)

Download: Volume 2: Fall 2010

Editors: Tiffani Burgess, Esther Kwan, and Adina Rubin-Budick
Cover Art/Design: Carly Dean and Michael Hong

Table of Contents

Today – Kalvin N. Harmon (p. 7)
My Lost Love – Jermaine West (p. 8)
Different Strokes – Michael Johnson (p. 10)
The Only Good Indian – Nathan Powell (p. 12)
The Treacherous Ascension from Adolescence to Adulthood By Brendan Miller (p. 14)
A Fragment – Lucas Whaley (p. 16)
My Mother’s Creation – Lawrence Dotson (p. 18)
A Scene with Two Views – Joshua J. Keppen (p. 19)
Untitled (My Life) – Joshua Torres (p. 21)
An Excerpt from “The Ambuscade” – Keir Weimer (p. 22)
Archaeology’s Discovery – Michael Shane Hale (p. 23)
A Language Everyone Understands – Michael Rhynes (p. 25)
My Last Words Dedicated to Tookie – Kavlin N. Harmon (p. 26)

Download: Volume 1: Fall 2009

Excerpt from Page 2:

We have begun this literary journal with these fundamental ideas: writing is an outlet, it is a deeply personal expression of self, and, as such, it should be given an opportunity to be heard. A forum for self-expression, if you will.

For us, teaching with the Cornell Prison Education Program has been a learning experience akin to writing what you learn about yourself is unexpected, what you learn about others is beautiful.

We hope that Writer’s Bloc will be a platform for the Auburn students, both to say what they want to themselves, and to say it to their audience. It is our hope that reading the work put down in this journal will be a chapter of our experiences for you, a look into Auburn, the work that the Cornell Prison Education Program does there, and what our students produce.

We will both be graduating from Cornell in a few short months, and we both can look back on our teaching experience as one of the most meaningful we have had at Cornell (our application essays to teaching jobs and law schools attest to this). If you believe, like we do, that Writer’s Bloc is a truly worthwhile endeavor, please contact us to help out with future editions. We would like the literary journal to continue when we leave Ithaca.

The writers featured in this journal have poured their innermost selves into making Writer’s Bloc what it is, and for that, we thank them. Enjoy.

Yours in writing,
Julia Woodward ’10 and Rahul Desai ’10