Bellingham Review Contributor
Jamie Silvonek (she/her) is a writer, activist, prison abolitionist, and college student at Ohio University. She has written for The Prison Journalism Project, The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, George Washington University’s Women in Beyond the Global, and numerous social justice zines. At 14, Jamie was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison, which she is serving at SCI Muncy in Pennsylvania. In her spare time, she enjoys training dogs, tutoring, working out, reading nerdy books, stuffing her face, and challenging misconceptions about incarcerated human beings. Marginal Verse is her first book of poetry.
Marginal Verse by Jamie Silvonek (Game Over Books, 2025) Marginal Verse is Jamie Silvonek's debut poetry collection, which I had the honor of reading as a galley. I was stunned by Silvonek's poems -- which…