Native Angeleno Melinda Palacio is a poet and novelist. Here she reads three poems from Folsom Lockdown, which won the Kulupi Press Sense of Place award.
Melinda recently described the back story behind Folsom Lockdown:
Earlier this year, in January, my sister Emily convinced me to accompany her on a difficult journey, visiting our father in Folsom Prison…. I didn’t realize the importance of this visit until weeks after I had arrived home. One day a downpour of poems kept my pen flowing. I wrote twelve poems about the experience over a weekend. My friend Susan read some of the poems and was the first to announce that I had a chapbook, and a good one. Keep writing more of those poems, Melinda, were her words to me.
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