Voices of the Stringtown Poetry Workshop

In the late 1970′s, Mary McAnally led a poetry workshop for the inmates at Stringtown Prison in Stringtown, Okla. She taught at the prison twice a week for three years, helping many of the prisons get published in literary journals across the country. In this segment, we hear McAnally discuss the movement to rehabilitate prisoners. We also hear two of the prisoner poets, Milton Gracen and William “Indian Bill” Hogner, read and discuss their poetry.