Let's (Book) Talk Award Winning Author and Poet Ann Bracken

Ann Bracken, an activist with a pen, has authored three poetry collections, No Barking in the Hallways: Poems from the Classroom and The Altar of Innocence and Once You're Inside: Poems Exploring Incarceration. She serves as a contributing editor for Little Patuxent Review, and co-facilitates the Wilde Readings Poetry Series.  Her poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in anthologies and journals, including Bared: Contemporary Poetry & Art on Bras & Breasts, Fledgling Rag, and Gargoyle. Ann’s poetry has garnered two Pushcart Prize nominations and   her advocacy work centers around arts-based interventions for mental health, education, and prison reform.  Website: www.annbrackenauthor.com

Her latest collection is: Once You’re Inside: Poems Exploring Incarceration. 

Here's what Dr. Laura Bates, English professor at Indiana State University and author of Shakespeare Saved My Life:

“Ann Bracken’s poetry collection, Once You’re Inside, is jammed with meaningful vignettes about people in prison. Without being the least bit sentimental, she…