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Updated 19 Apr 2006

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Books:


Where I'm Writing From


Leaving Death Row


Inside My Head

Recent News:
LET TOOKIE LIVE!
Letter From A Condemned Black Man
Part one of an article on Reggie
Part two of an article on Reggie
"Reflections of an Ex-Gang Member" Posted.
Where I'm Writing From published.
New Writing Posted.
"Inside My Head" wins award!
"I am Reggie" Posted
"Inside My Head" now available
"Website goes live!"
"A Date With Death" Posted
"Sabo's Gone" Posted

Selected Reviews:
Gretel DeRuiter, FUMCOG
David Gardner for The Catholic Agitator
Carole McDonnell for www.curledup.com
Julie Falk, Southland Prison News
Realistic Living Review
Beth Peakall, a member of Leicester MM, England

New Writing:
Reflections of an Ex-Gang Member
An Affinity For Angels
Good Night, Boo, Baby
Where Are You Now (For Aunt Marian)
Wanna Go Home
In The Big Yard
For Ameenah
Sad Stories Are Always true
Throw Down
The Prisoners Wives (For Asha Bandele)
Scenes From An Execution
For Mynah
For Shaka Sankofa

Legal Updates:
Mail Tampering
Exhibit H
Exhibit G
Exhibit F
Exhibit E
Exhibit D
Exhibit C
Exhibit B
Exhibit A
Essays, Articles, and Op-eds

  • "If I Am to Die, So Be It," The Philadelphia Daily News, January 3, 1985.
  • "View of Capital Punishment from Death Row." The Philadelphia Daily News, October 25, 1985.
  • "Cheers on Death Row Green Rendell's Defeat." the Philadelphia Daily News, November 18 1986.
  • "Land of the Loony Birds." The Philadelphia Daily News, September 23, 1987.
  • "There Goes the Neighborhood." The Philadelphia Daily News, January 17, 1989.
  • "Escape from Death Row." The Other Side Magagazine, September-October 1991.
  • "A Cascade of Love." The Other Side Magagazine, March-April 1992.
  • "A Hard Lesson in Morality." North Coast Xpress, December 1994/January 1995.
  • "Things White People Do." The Round Valley Paper, March 22, 1995.
  • "Million Man March." North Coast Xpress, December 1995/January 1996.
  • "Prison Father Sessions." North Coast Xpress, February/March 1996.
  • "The Rise of Black Hatred," Mahogany Revue, Vol.8, No.16, December 27, 1996, January 10 1997. Reprinted in Passions, No.8, June 1997.
  • "The Shame of Philadelphia Blue," Turning the Tide, Vol.10, No. 1, Spring 1997. Reprinted in England in The Green Anarchist, No.47-48, July 1997. Also reprinted in Socialtist Action, September 1997 issue. Available on the Internet at: The far Cry', http://www.telport.com/~CBS2/Farcry/Farcry/ , 1997 & http://www.Globaldrum.com/Nattyreb/fnx500.html
  • "Success and Unity-Through the Eyes of a Black Man," V Magazine, August/September 1997.
  • "A Date with Death," The Red Penn, August 1997 issue.
  • "Say Hello to My Little Friends," The Plough Online, 1997-98.
  • "Sabo's Gone," Bamboo Girl; #7, 1998.
  • "A Very Cold Place," North Coast Xpress, Summer 1998.
  • "From the Darkest Jungle," Maine in Print, September 1998.
  • "The Rise of Black Hatred," Collages & Bricolages, #72, Spring 1999.
  • "A Date with Death," Revised in Port of Harlem, November 1999-May 2000, Vol. 5, No. 1.
  • "These Are Not God's Eyes," Impact Press, December/January 1999-2000, Issue 24.
  • "Angels on Eagles Wings," Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP), Reginald S. Lewis Homepage, 3/27/00
  • "When Doves Cry," The Thought. May/June 2000
  • "The Soul and A Little Ink," July/August 2000
  • "The PEN Voting Party," Clamor. August/September 2000
  • "These Are Not God's Eyes," The Affiliate, reprinted in Canada, September 2000
  • "Prison McCarthyism," The New People, from The Thomas Merton Center, November 2000
  • "Willie, Mumia, and the Birds," appeared on a selection of websites, including The ECADP or European Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Germany, and reprinted in The New People. December 2000
  • "Willie, Mumia, and the Birds," also appeared in AWOL, 2001, and New People Paper, Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburg, PA 2000, and Southland Prison News, 2001.
  • "Sister Betty," appeared in New People, Feb 2001.
  • "Confessions of a Condemned Poet," The Justice Express, Winter 2002.
  • "The Auschwitz Factor," The Idaho Observer, August 19, 2003.
  • "The Saga of Timothy Rice," Justice Denied Magazine, Fall 2003. Reprinted with permission in Cell Door magazine, January 2004.
  • "Justice for Eddie Romero," Cell Door Magazine, January 2004. Reprinted in Innocence Denied, Volume 2, Issue 5, October/November 2004.
  • "Vibrant Life of Poetry and Art Behind Bars," Graterfriends, Volume XXVIII, Number 3, March 2005.

Poems

  • "Whispers," "Brown Eyes," "One Day Soon," and "Whisper I'm Gone," The Philadelphia Tribune in weekly issues, 1985.
  • "In the Big Yard," Fortune News, 1989. Reprinted in Poetry: USA, 1990. Reprinted in Wordwrights, No. 11, Fall/Winter 1997.
  • "Let's Get Married," Talk of the World, 1989.
  • "Domestic Violence," Axis, No. 4, 1990.
  • "Releasing the Chains," Poetry: USA, 1990.
  • "For James Baldwin," Poetry: USA, 1990. Reprinted mAim: America's Intercultural Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 4, Winter 1996-97.
  • "Who Knows?" and "Releasing the Chains," (reprinted) Lifelines, No. 50, 1990.
  • " Autumn Dawn," Bitterroot International, Vol. XXX, No. 100, 1991.
  • "Dark City" and "The Palest Shade of Confusion," Oracle Poetry, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1992.
  • "Wanna Go Home," The Affiliate (Canada), 1993. Reprinted in Wordwrights, No. 11, Fall/Winter 1997.
  • "Where Are You Now? (For Aunt Marian)." Avalon Rising, November 1993.
  • "Precious," Affairs of the Pen, Vol. 1, No. 5, August 1994.
  • "The Nature of Sadness," Affair of the Pen, Vol. 1, No. 6, September 1994.
  • "Death Row," The Gathering, Vol. 2, 1994. Reprinted in North Coast Xpress, August/September 1995.
  • "The Madman Sings of Better Days," ArgCata-zine, No. 5,1994.
  • "Tashina," Sonoma County Free Press, Vol. 10, No. 2, April/May 1996.
  • "Good Morning," Street Beat Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1997.
  • "The Way I See Him," The Other Side, September-December 1997. Reprinted in Moongate, Vol. IV, 37, March 1998.
  • "For Ameenah," Moongate, Vol. IV, #7, March 1998.
  • "Leaving Death Row," North Coast Xpress, Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 1998.
  • "Just Another Day," "On the Day the Children Marched," Expressive Spirals, July 1998.
  • "Nappy Heads," Black Diaspora, September 1998.
  • "Queens Rise," Women on the Row, January 1999, Vol. 1, Issue 6.
  • "Black Wings," African American Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1999.
  • "Shanika is Pregnant" and "Johnny's A Painter," The Exchange, No. 9, 1999.
  • "What I Need," Justicia, November/December 1999.
  • "Leaving Death Row," Cement Squeeze, Winter 1999/2000, Issue #12.
  • "Leaving Death Row," "Wanna Go Home," and "Black Wings," were reprinted in Blood Root, Volume Five, Summer 2000.
  • "Sad Stories Are Always True," S.P.A.W.N.. Issue 8, Summer 2000.
  • "Men Do Cry," The Affiliate. September-October 2000.
  • "On The Day The Children Marched," reprinted, "Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures,Fall 2000.
  • "Johnny's A Painter," and "Leaving Death Row," reprinted. Flying Horse. No. 6, 2000.
  • "Kissing Josephine," Pearl. Fall/Winter 2000.
  • "West of India," Shenandoah. 2000-2001.
  • "Queens Rise," reprinted, Blu Magazine, No. 7, 2000.
  • "For Ameenah," was reprinted in Mosaic Literary Magazine, Summer 2001.
  • "Autumn Dawn," and "Leaving Death Row," were reprinted in Iodine, Spring 2002.
  • "Inside My Head," appeared in The Justice Express, Fall 2002.
  • "A Thousand Miles Away,"Appeared in The Justice Express, Winter 2002.
  • "The Midnight Traveler," Appeared in Bell's Letters, Number 104, February 2003.
  • "When You're Here," Appeared in Poet's Roundtable, March 2003. Reprinted in The Justice Express, Winter 2003.
  • "Snapshots," and "A Girl Named Reverie," Appeared in Steam Ticket, Volume 11, Number 3, Summer 2003.
  • "One Way Out," Appeared in MaryMark Press, 2003.
  • "Weird Sightings," Appeared in Fearless 59, 2004. Reprinted in Spare Change News, May 13 - May 26, 2004.
  • "I'll See You Later, Mr. Fred," Appeared in CokeFish: Alpha Beat Soup, February 2004.
  • "If I Was A Bird," Appeared in The Maine Commons, Issue 15, Spring 2004. Reprinted in The Catholic Agitator, Number 5, June 2004.
  • "10 Minutes Until Dawn," Appeared in MaryMark Press, 2004. Reprinted in St. Vitus Press & Poetry Review, Issue 5, Fall 2004.
  • "Profiling," Spare Change News, March 18 - March 31, 2004.
  • "Tomorrow," Spare Change News, May 27, 2004.
  • "Cora," Appeared in The Catholic Agitator, Number 5, June 2004.
  • "Hot Air Bags," Appeared in St. Vitus Poetry & Press Review, Issue 5, Fall 2004.
  • "A Seasoned Woman," Appeared in Clara Venus, April 2005.
  • "The Sun On Death Row," Appeared in Time of Singing, Volume 32, Number 1, Spring 2005.
  • "Paranoia," Appeared in Big Hammer 16, April 2005.
  • "A Splendid Day On Death Row," Appeared in Big Hammer 18, 2005.
  • "When We Were Cool," Weirdness Before Midnight, May 2005.
  • "Cherry Gets A New Pair Of Shoes," and "The Stuff God Gave You," Appeared in Fulva Flava, Summer 2005.
  • "When My Baby Comes," "Reggie Lewis Is In Love With Marie Kazalia," and "When We Were Cool," Appeared in Defect Cult, Autumn 2005.

Fiction

  • "Flight from the Ghetto," Da Ghetto Tymes Magazine, 1994.
  • "The Mighty Kareem,"Parts 1 and 2, Da Ghetto Tymes Magazine, 1994.

Drama

  • "Billy's Best Christmas", performed by the 5th and 8th graders of Bruderhof's Spring Valley School, 1995, and Bruderhof's New Meadow Run School, 1996.
  • "An Affinity For Angels", a play in four acts. Performed by the Bruderhof' Community Theater, Pennsylvania (student production), 1998.
  • "An Affinity for Angels", selected for the "4th Annual Juneteeth Festival of New Works," June 17,2000, Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Anthologies

  • "Illusions. " The Best of Rhyme Time, Hutton Publications, 1988.
  • "Milestones." Celebration of Life Antholgy, Sandy Shelton's Poetry Press, 1989.
  • "Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing", 1999, Arcade Publishing.
  • "Leaving Death Row" 1st Books Library, 1997
  • "Inside My Head" iUniverse.com, 2002

Honors and Awards

  • P.E.N. Amencan Center's 1988 Writing Awards for Prisoners. First Prize, Poetry, for "In the Big Yard."
  • P.E.N. Amencan Center's 1987 Writin2 Awards for Prisoners. Third Prize, Non-fiction, for "Sweeter than Sugar."
  • Hutton Publications Long Poem Contest, 1988. Honorable Mention. Also, Certificates of Award for poems published in March 22, 1988 issue, June 8, 1988 issue, and August 22. 1988 issue.
  • Third Place, Drama, Good Night, Boo Baby, a Short Play, P.E.N. Prison Writing Awards,1999.
  • "4th Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Works," for full-length, semi-autobiographical, anti-death penalty play, "An Affinity For Angels"
  • Inside My Head, poetry collection, voted among "The Top 15 Books of 2002," by www.nonfictionreviews.com
  • "Sometimes It Rains," Third Place Honorable Mention in "The Top 40 and 41-50 Poems," in Bell's Letters, Number 104, February 2003.

Memberships

  • National Book Critics Circle
  • The Academy of American Poets
  • Poet's Study Club of Terre Haute, IN
  • The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance

Books

  • Leaving Death Row, 1stbooks.com, 1997.
  • Inside My Head, iuniverse.com, 2002.
  • Where I'm Writing From: Essays From Pennsylvania's Death Row, PublishAmerica, Inc., 2005. (Non-Fiction)
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Questions, comments, concerns? Contact me directly at reggie@reginaldslewis.org.