OpenLine

OpenLine: an interdisciplinary journal of student writing, is now in print!

The Prison University Project is proud to publish OpenLine,an annual interdisciplinary journal of academic essays, visual art, poetry, fiction, and non fiction by students in the College Program at San Quentin.

A panel of four student-editors, along with PUP Program Director Jennifer Scaife, print work that showcases the talents and intellectual strengths of students in both the College Preparatory and the Associate of Arts Degree programs.

The complete content of the Winter 2008 issue is available below.

To request a free copy of OpenLine, please email us at info@prisonuniversityproject.org with your name and address.

Table of Contents

Randall Countryman
Pencil Drawing

Michael Endres
Untitled

David Garner
Solve the Violence in My Community!

Randall Countryman
Where Have All the People Gone?

Danny Vince Cox
Listen

Michael B. Willis
The Incident

Greg Sanders
The Problem of the 20th Century Is the Color Line: Why I Agree

Fred K. Harris
A Differing Socialistic View of Substance Abuse
Colored Pencil Drawing

Toby Hamman
Back in the Closet!

John O. Neblett
Life in a Vacuum

Curtis Roberts
Untitled

Kamal SeifEldeen
Until Next Feast

Henry Edward Frank
Self-Portrait
Accepting Things as They Are

Kolai Faumui
Space Invaders

Felix Fausto
Ninety Minutes of Freedom

Charles Hopple
It’s Not Forty Acres & a Mule; It’s Only Two Hundred Dollars, Gate Money

Kenneth R. Brydon
from San Quentin, July 4th, 1975

Justin Gies
Prometheus

Phil
Bars

Lawrence Blankenship
from A Thousand Days in San Quentin

John O. Neblett
A Random Variable

Jonathan Wilson
The Best Time in My Life

 

Contributors' Notes

Introducing IS IT SAFE?, a collection of essays by students in the San Quentin College Program. Read more