Among the poems in this issue are several written by young people in juvenile detention.
Our thanks to their teachers, Dennis Morton in Santa Cruz and Jim Moreno in San
Diego, for getting those poems to us. Both have written commentaries for us about
teaching in those institutions. And many thanks to Thomas E. Kennedy for sending us
the brilliant, chilling essay and the poems by Eduardo Ramirez from prison.
If other poet-teachers in juvenile detention institutions or prisons or VA hospitals
would like to send us poems or encourage those they teach to send poems to Serving
House Journal, we will read them with care and respect and publish those we
think merit publication in SHJ.
—Steve Kowit, Poetry Editor, for Serving House Journal
—Please send electronic submissions only:
servinghousejournal [at] gmail [dot] com