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06/13/2026

From the vaults: Interview VOX did with one of the very last Beat poets of the Robert Creeley branch. Republished June 12, 2026 by Collidescope Magazine:

Poetry in the United States is undervalued, misunderstood, and so scattered as to be nothing more than cultural dust on the furniture of the arts.

06/12/2026

First P.W.I. Art workshop graduation at East Mississippi Correctional Facility in Merdian, Mississippi. June 10, 2026.

04/30/2026

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Darosky Ford #149368 Mississippi State Penitentiary Unit 26 P.O. Box 1057 Parchman, MS 38738

04/26/2026

Minutes before Six feature of Victor Wilder who will appear in VOX's forthcoming book, Parchman Prison Poetry. In this piece he writes straight forwardly about his personal history summed up in these words:

"I was kicked out of my mother’s house at 15, sent to Mississippi at 15. Got locked up at 16 and sent to Mississippi State Penitentiary at 16 and been here ever since. Now 41." Victor passed away in the prison hospital not long after writing

What I Want the World to Know About MeBy Victor Wilder I want the world to know that my name is Victor Allen Wilder Jr. R2768. I was born in Chicago IL., mother died when I was 5 years old, father died when I was 12. I was kicked out of my mother’s mother’s house at 15, sent to Mississippi at 15...

04/24/2026

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an interview with Matthea Harvey by Louis BourgeoisMatthea Harvey is the author of the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity

04/18/2026

https://minutesbeforesix.com/poetry-by-bryant-kirk/Feature in MINUTES BEFORE SIX of VOX's forthcoming Parchman Prison Poetry. Bryant Kirk, Unit 29 G Bldg, A-Zone: "I’ve noticed the instructor has not wanted to issue supplies! May be because gang members have told him to stop giving me what's rightfully mine. Bull-Sh*t. Not to issue me folders and ink pens. I’m about to drop out of this class. F**k this s**t."

PTSDBy Bryant Kirk I’m feeling unloved mistreated. Neglected by young so call gang members’ organization bullies. Not accepting me. I’m fifty-seven years old O.G. in this s**t. But yet. I’m slow played daily, I’m not able to get water. This young negro feels like his ass is so hi and might...

04/11/2026

Feature in Minutes Before Six of VOX's forthcoming Parchman Prison Poetry. Best line of the day goes to lifer William McCain from his piece Ramblings from a Tired and Broken Lifer: " If I were a bird I’d be an eagle, soaring high above the clouds, dropping low to p**s on a crowd." What a line!

Ramblings From a Tired and Broken LiferBy William McCain I say that I don’t write poems, ‘cause frankly I hate Poetry.   But now I sit and write: problem is, I don’t have a damn clue what I might say.  As I sit here on a bunk made of metal in a building not made of much more, just like an o...

03/09/2026

Black Panther performance by VOX PRESS, filmed and edited by Mykki Newton.

(2015) WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE. Documentary featuring an emerging strain of anger among some prominent African-American activists and intellectuals during th...

01/05/2026

VOX author Sally Lott McLellan lecture tomorrow about Intersections: Seeking Self at Parchman Prison, tomorrow, January 6th, 2026, 6:30 pm at Bozarts Gallery in Water Valley.

12/31/2025

Against the Current Magazine's feature on VOX's Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison. January, 2026 issue.

Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison Louis Bourgeois (Ed.) Vox Press, 2024, 219 pages, $19.99 paperback. UNIT 29: WRITING from Parchman Prison provides a raw look inside the Mississippi State Peni…