“Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex”
By Damon Locks
Cover art by Damon Locks for Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex (Hat & Beard Press, 2020), a collection of poems and essays about human rights accompanied by foam block prints of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by artists at Stateville Prison, edited by Tara Betts, Aaron Hughes, and Sarah Ross. This artwork appeared in Poetry’s December 2020 issue along with additional work excerpted from the book.