A video trailer for the book, By Heart, by Judy Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson about the men in a poetry class at San Quentin State Prison. Jackson is serving a life sentence at San Quentin and Tannenbaum teaches poetry at the prison.
Tannenbaum has met many changed men and wonders what small things might have been enough to change their life paths at an earlier stage. “Why” she asks, “does it take murder and the prospect of life behind bars to wake up so many young men?”
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