Cracked Masks: With You and Without You

POPS the Club is a California-based nonprofit creating and supporting high school clubs for those young people whose lives have been touched by the Pain of the Prison System. In weekly club meetings, guided by teachers, writers, artists, activists, performers, and nonprofit leaders, club members tell their stories, write their stories, draw, paint and otherwise share their lives with each other, and with the larger community. The students publish their work on our website and in partner publications, and each year POPS the Club publishes an anthology of work generated by these powerful, wise young people who are telling us stories we all need to hear.

Cracked Masks: With You and Without You is the fourth release by POPS the Club, another powerful compilation of work by students from schools across Los Angeles and as far away as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. We also welcome the work by Friends of POPS, those who have visited our clubs as speakers, teachers, volunteers guides and observers, those who have stories to tell about the impact of incarceration on their lives, most ofen as the loved ones of the incarcerated.

These are stories from the children, siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins, boyfriends and girlfriends of the incarcerated. These are stories readers seldom hear. These are stories vital to our understanding of our country, of who and what we are and how we live.

Teachers who use these anthologies in their classrooms tell us their reluctant readers cannot stop reading, that often the POPS Anthologies are the books that introduce their students to the pleasures of reading.

Author: Amy Friedman
Publisher: Popstheclub.Com, Inc.
Published: 06/05/2017
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780998838274

About the Author
Friedman, Amy: - Amy Friedman, co-founder of POPS the Club, is an author, editor, ghostwriter and writing teacher whose memoir Desperado's Wife tells the story of her life as a prisoner's wife and mother to two daughters struggling with the stigma, shame and sorrow of loving a prisoner. In many ways, it is the origin story of POPS the Club.Danziger, Dennis: - Dennis Danziger, co-founder of POPS the Club, is an author and 26-year veteran of the LAUSD, an English teacher who has taught at Crenshaw High, Palisades Charter High and Venice High. Prior to his teaching career, Danziger worked as a television writer and also taught writing at the UCLA Extension. Over the years his students in the LAUSD have been recipients of dozens of writing awards, including top awards from The Beverly Hills Literary Society. Danziger is also a novelist and playwright.Longman, Alison: - Alison Longman is currently studying to be a teacher at California State University Northridge. She is a writer, editor and longtime volunteer with POPS the Club.