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]

Education

Baxter attended BARD College after her incarceration.[8]

Publications

Books
  • Prison Solitary and Other Free Government Services (Greenfield Review Press, 1979)

Anthologies
  • 20th Century Prison Writings (Penguin/Putnam, 1998)[9]
  • The Light from Another Country (Greenfield Review Press, 1984),
  • Wall Tappings Vol 1 (Feminist Press, 1986)[10]
  • Wall Tappings Vol 2 (Feminist Press, 2005)

Career

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.[10] Baxter is a member of the United Federation for Teachers.she is a proud member Lof ASCAP and SAG/A.F.T.R.A The Screen and Television Performers. She plays conga/bass.

Imprisonment

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.[11] One of her most famous poems is about masturbating silently on her cot so as not to alert the guards of what she was doing.[12]

Writings

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.[13] Her work has been used in studies of the prison industrial complex.[14]

gollark: You can spend the free time you're not spending on murdering people on learning Rust!
gollark: Now you can stop plotting to murder everyone I guess!
gollark: Great, well, you've probably somewhat solved your problems?
gollark: Although that might make sense, so C probably does something else.
gollark: I would assume the value of `m[4]` after addition.

References
  1. Franklin, Howard Bruce (1998). Prison Writing in 20th-century America. Penguin. ISBN 9780140273052.
  2. "Carolyn Baxter". Brown University.
  3. "Carolyn Baxter". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  4. Bernstein, Lee (2010). America is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807833872.
  5. "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  6. 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.
  7. Bernstein, L (2006-01-01), Prison writers and the Black Arts Movement, pp. 297–316, retrieved 2018-08-04
  8. 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.
  9. Franklin, Howard Bruce (1998). Prison Writing in 20th-century America. Penguin. ISBN 9780140273052.
  10. 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.
  11. "Wild Poppies: A Tribute to Marilyn Buck" (PDF). News from the Freedom Archives.
  12. "Speak, O Prison". www.mantlethought.org. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  13. "About | Poetry from the Age of Mass Incarceration". library.brown.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
  14. "The Effect of Prison Crowding on Behavior" (PDF). National Institute of Justice.
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