Poetry by Fernando Rivas
Cartoon WorldBy Fernando Rivas We are cartoon peoplewith a cartoon presidentcartoon electionscartoon lawscartoon politicianscartoon celebritiescartoon sportscartoon…
by Fernando Rivas (TX)
Fernando Rivas 23452-171
Federal Correctional Institution
PO BOX 9000, Unit 53
Seagoville, TX 75159-9000
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.
Cartoon WorldBy Fernando Rivas We are cartoon peoplewith a cartoon presidentcartoon electionscartoon lawscartoon politicianscartoon celebritiescartoon sportscartoon…
by Fernando Rivas (TX)
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
As COVID-19 cases approach 2.5 million worldwide and nearly 40,000 deaths in the U.S., one of…
by Fernando Rivas
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has chosen to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic not with…
by Fernando Rivas
Dozens of inmates here, many walker and wheelchair bound, suffering from diabetes, including a man with…
by Fernando Rivas
