Poetry by Fernando Rivas
RememberingBy Fernando Rivas Up from the soil I’m looking for light now that winter is gone,…
by Fernando Rivas TX
Fernando Rivas has been released
Fernando Rivas is a Cuban-born award-winning composer and writer. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 1977 after studying with David Diamond and Vincent Persichetti. He composed music for various television programs, for film and theater. In 2016, while incarcerated, he received an honorable mention from the PEN America prison writing program for his poem ‘300 Min.’. In 2019 he won the American Short Fiction Insider’s Prize award and an honorable mention on the Texas Observer short story contest. He considers himself an activist for prison and sentencing reform and an advocate for a more rational judicial system.
RememberingBy Fernando Rivas Up from the soil I’m looking for light now that winter is gone,…
by Fernando Rivas TX
We are living in times that demand action. For criminal-legal reform organizations the time for words,…
by Fernando Rivas
Click here to read Part One INTERLUDE They speak to meor through me, ghost voices.I can’t…
by Fernando Rivas
“We arise from deeper forces, but our choices cannot be known in advance–so we have free…
by Fernando Rivas
A fascinating document appeared yesterday on our prison computer billboard along with the usual notices about…
by Fernando Rivas
Growing up in Cuba during Castro’s revolution I lived a simple lower middle-class life. My dad…
by Fernando Rivas
With all due respect to BOP Director Colette Peters’ noble notion of “reforming the Bureau of…
by Fernando Rivas
Part One The Writer had stopped writing. It wasn’t writer’s block now or anything like it.…
by Fernando Rivas
If there is a term meaning the opposite of ‘anthropomorphism’, i.e. giving animals‘human’ qualities, I don’t…
by Fernando Rivas
You recently wrote: “It has long been said that a society’s worth can be judged by…
by Fernando Rivas
