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Mon, 05/17/2021
LAWRENCE – After the COVID-19 pandemic broke Brian Daldorph s 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 “Ice Age/Edad de Hielo,” about his late father’s struggle with dementia, and “Blue Notes,” highlighting his love for jazz and blues. He also edits
But it is the work he has done behind the locked doors of the Douglas County Jail ever since the turn of the millennium that Daldorph refers to as his calling in the new book. ....

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