Book Presentation by writer and artist LINDA NORTON

LINDA NORTON, writer and artist, will read from her book, THE PUBLIC GARDENS: POEMS AND HISTORY, and from new work she's made in connection with the project "Home and Away: Oakland, California Prisons, and the Geography of the Heart." The "Home and Away" project seeks to fill an informational (and an emotional) void by raising questions about the paradoxes of American history, ideas about freedom and equality, and the huge increase in the prison population in California in the past thirty years. Education is both a theme and a goal of the project.