My Memoir is Here!
My memoir, Soul Knows No Bars: a Writer’s Journey Doing Poetry with Inmates, has been released from Olive Tree Publishing.
This book is about my fourteen year sojourn inside Auburn Correctional Facility, a men’s maximum security prison in Auburn, New York, as a weekly volunteer facilitating a poetry workshop with inmate writers. This work enabled the publication of four works by members of the workshop, one chapbook and one full-length volume, each by an individual author, and two anthologies. Although it is a prose memoir, the book contains some of the inmates’ poems, plus some of mine about my experiences.
The book is 335 pp, paperbound, $14.00 plus $3.50 postage. To order your copy of Soul Knows No Bars, a Writer’s Journey Doing Poetry with Inmates, and any of my other books, plus the volumes by inmate writers, go to my
Patricia Roth Schwartz is a poet, editor, writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, and short plays. She lives in the Finger Lakes Region of central New York state on her thirty-five acre property, Sage-Thyme Haven. Widely published in literary journals including Nimrod, South Carolina Review, Iron Horse, Clackamas Literary Review, Madison Review, and Palo Alto Review, her most recent work appears in Homestead Review, Stone Canoe, and the anthology Trumped!. She has been the recipient of awards from Clackamas, Rochester’s ImageOut, Sow’s Ear, and HeartLodge, plus a Lambda Literary award for a volume of short fiction. She has had published seven volumes of poems, some of which contain short lyric prose as well. These books, as well, as the memoir, may be purchased through this website.