Soft Skull Poet now Poet-in-Residence on Riker's Island...
It's Jackie Sheeler. Story ran in yesterday's New York Times. She edited Off the Cuffs: Poetry By and About the Police.
Also, this constitutes a new strategy for keeping this blog fresh. Shorter entries, and more of them. Not as many as the blog run by Frank Wilson, books ed at the Philly Inquirer, but more than I've managed recently! We'll see how it goes...