Creative Performances

The College Program at San Quentin hosts several creative performances annually, during which students and other members of San Quentin’s general population perform spoken word pieces, monologues, and poems for a crowd of volunteers and fellow students.

Listen to students presenting their personal essays at an end-of- semester class reading:

Jonathan Wilson - The Ride
Felix Lucero - Cover Up


student reading poem

Introducing IS IT SAFE?, a collection of essays by students in the San Quentin College Program. Read more