Thanks, Tori
Floating envelope against yellow backdrop

During the first year of what’s now my decades long unjust imprisonment that began in the early 80s, a dam burst in some deep reservoir of my mind, released a powerful ebb and flow of artistic expression and creativity. The powerful stream of consciousness flooded my small, cloistered cell on Pennsylvania’s death row, and I was flying… flying, on some imperceptible plane of osmosis. Characters and scenes and images and bright kaleidoscopic colors swirled about me. 

I indelibly etched the word fragments on ink-splotched copious notes that were scattered all over the floor. I’d made a self-discovery as a writer.

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Reginald Sinclair Lewis
Reginald Sinclair Lewis

is a widely-published, PEN Award winning poet and playwright who authored two books of poetry and a collection of essays. In 2019, he was cast as Octavius Caesar in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, but the prison canceled the performances due to COVID.