Prison Blossoms: A Dramatic Reading

Anarchist Voices from the American Past

We are honored to present this dramatic reading by the editors themselves of their recently published book “Prison Blossoms“. This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be provided.

In 1892, three immigrant anarchists, Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold, were imprisoned for the attempted assassination of steel magnate Henry Frick in 1892 during the bloody labor lockout in Homestead Pennsylvania. On odd bits of paper, they shared their thoughts, hopes and convictions in a handwritten clandestine magazine called “Prison Blossoms”.

Reading excerpts from the “Prison Blossoms,” its editors will offer dramatic eyewitness testimony not only to the turbulence of radical politics and labor unrest in America’s Gilded Age, but also to the corrupt and brutal conditions these men survived inside its prisons.

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About the editors;

Co-editor Miriam Brody is the editor of the Penguin edition of the autobiography of Emma Goldman.

Co-editor and translator Bonnie Buettner is senior lecturer in the German department at Cornell University. More than half of the “Prison Blossoms” were written in German, the country of origin of two of the anarchists.