Using Digital Book Clubs during the COVID-19 Pandemic to Minimize the Distance of Social Distancing
Due to COVID-19, the authors transitioned from in-person to remote learning with asynchronous and synchronous digital book clubs centered on social justice texts. The article details culturally sustaining and emotionally responsive approaches used with historically marginalized populations, including formerly incarcerated adults and young adults in alternative school districts.
"Apple Is for Identity and Other Prompts." The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer's Life in Prison
The Sentences That Create Us offers a practical roadmap for incarcerated writers and their allies, drawing on contributions from more than fifty justice-involved authors to provide guidance, resources, and inspiration for sustaining a writing life behind and beyond prison walls.
"For Tammy with Love." Unwritten: Stories from Behind and Beyond the Bars
UNWRITTEN is an anthology of vulnerable stories, poems, affirmations, and testimonies from incarcerated individuals, their families, and community members, created to foster healing and understanding.
"Bridging Islands to Build a Continent: Harnessing the Power of Digital Book Clubs During the Coronavirus Pandemic." The Corona Chronicles
This chapter explores how digital book clubs can sustain literacy, social-emotional support, and community connection during crisis, with practical examples from work with formerly incarcerated adults and young adults in alternative school districts.
Writer and researcher Anderson Smith explains how reader response theory comes alive in book clubs and supports deeper, more personal engagement with literature.
A thought trapped in a room becomes a lyrical meditation on identity, ambition, and hope, as Anderson Smith transforms lived experience into poetry that connects deeply with everyday readers.
