Foster Dickson: Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project is an Auburn University Outreach program that provides a variety of assistance for prisons and inmates, including arranging for classes in the arts and humanities, creating and stocking libraries, and exhibiting artistic and creative works by inmates.
In the summer of 2005, Foster Dickson taught a creative writing class at the Frank Lee minimum security facility near Deatsville, Alabama. Since that time, Foster has also coordinated book drives and collections for APAEP's libraries in prisons.
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project is an Auburn University Outreach program that provides a variety of assistance for prisons and inmates, including arranging for classes in the arts and humanities, creating and stocking libraries, and exhibiting artistic and creative works by inmates.
In the summer of 2005, Foster Dickson taught a creative writing class at the Frank Lee minimum security facility near Deatsville, Alabama. Since that time, Foster has also coordinated book drives and collections for APAEP's libraries in prisons.