Title: Poems from Prison
Series Title: Broadside Series
Date: April 1968
Creator: Etheridge Knight
Preface by Gwendolyn Brooks

This booklet of poems is dedicated “For J.W. ‘Icewater’ Prewitt, Charles ‘Butch’ Baker, and Willie Groce; for Dickie Gilbert and Don ‘Golden Boy’ Booker; for Paul ‘Funky Drum’ Jones; and for all the other caged Black cats everywhere.”

Poems included in this volume are:
Cell Song
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
He Sees through Stone
For Freckle-Faced Gerald
To the Man Who Sidled Up to Me and Asked: ‘How Long You In Fer, Buddy?’
The Idea of Ancestry
The Warden Said to Me the Other Day
Haiku
To Make a Poem in Prison
Crazy Pigeon
Sweethearts in a Mulberry Tree
As You Leave Me
A Love Poem
The Violent Space
2 Poems for Black Relocation Centers
On Universalism
A Nickel Bet
For P.F.C. Joe Rodgers
Peace
Portrait of Malcolm X
For Malcolm
A Year After
It Was a Funky Deal
The Sun Came
To Dinah Washington
For Langston Hughes
To Gwendolyn Brooks
Apology for Apostasy?