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As Florida Prison Poet Laureate, Christopher Malec serves as the voice from behind prison walls.

San Francisco’s 8th poet laureate: Tongo Eisen-Martin, a voice for the people byIvan Salinas Minutes before Tongo Eisen-Martin received the news that he was to become the eighth poet laureate of San Francisco, he was in the midst of recording poems for the San Francisco Public Library when a liaison helping him with the shoot asked him to join a Zoom meeting.  Then came the moment Eisen-Martin had been waiting weeks for, San Francisco mayor London Breed appeared on the other end of the screen sharing the unexpected good news with him.  Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest news from...

Christopher Malec was recently named the Luis Hernandez Florida Prison Poet Laureate by Exchange for Change, in collaboration with O, Miami Poetry Festival. He is working on his first collection of poems, and his work has been commissioned by the University of Arizona’s Art for Justice project. Poems by Christopher Malec