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summary Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at the jail for the foreseeable future was mid-March 2020, right before the COVID-19 lockdown; the virus is taking a heavy toll in confined communities like nursing homes and prisons. Words Is a Powerful Thing is Daldorph’s record of teaching at the jail for the two decades between 2001 and 2020, showing how the lives of everyone i...

Mon, 05/17/2021 LAWRENCE – After the COVID-19 pandemic broke Brian Daldorphs 20-year streak of teaching a weekly class at Douglas County Jail, the University of Kansas senior lecturer in English hopes to work with inmates again someday soon. The book is part-memoir about his teaching experience at the jail, part-inmate anthology and also includes a survey of major incarcerated writers, including Malcolm X and Jimmy Santiago Baca. Daldorph has published several books of poetry, including “Ic...

/ Brian Daldorph outside the Douglas County Jail where hes volunteered to teach poetry for 20 years. For 20 years, English professor Brian Daldorph has taught Douglas County Jail inmates poetry. Hes compiled some of their works in his new book, "Words Is A Powerful Thing." Brian Daldorph is a poet and English professor at the University of Kansas. But for 20 years, he’s also spent one afternoon a week teaching poetry to the inmates of the Douglas County Jail. “I’ve always thought that wr...

The Scottish-American winner of the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction says he’s fascinated with translators’ work on his book. Douglas Stuart. Image: Porter Anderson ‘Not the Experience of Most Debut Novelists’ By the time Douglas Stuart was named the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction winner—becoming only the second Scottish work to win the honor in 50 years— Shuggie Bain already had sold into 22 territories and/or languages. Pan Macmillan’s Camilla Eleworthy in London confirms to Publis...