Carolyn Baxter

Baxter worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP and was a member of the Black Panthers Party. She also worked for the New York City Board of Education in programs for ex-offenders and adolescent offenders.^[8]

Baxter was formerly incarcerated at the New York City Correctional Institute for Women at Rikers Island.^[5] There, she joined the Free Space Writing Project. Her writings are considered a part of the Prison Art's Movement of the 1970s and 1980s.^[6][7] Baxter served time with the singer/poet Marilyn Buck.^[9] Baxter attended BARD College after her incarceration.^[10]

Brown University did an exhibit titled, Poetry in the Time of Mass Incarceration, which displayed Baxter's writings in the John Hay Library's Willis Reading Room at Brown from September 2015 – January 4, 2016.^[11] Her work has been used in studies of the prison industrial complex.^[12]

• Prison Solitary and Other Free Government Services (Greenfield Review Press, 1979)

• 20th Century Prison Writings (Penguin/Putnam, 1998)^[13]
• The Light from Another Country (Greenfield Review Press, 1984),
• Wall Tappings Vol 1 (Feminist Press, 1986)^[8]
• Wall Tappings Vol 2 (Feminist Press, 2005)