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'''TEXAS OUTLAW PRESS''' is a publisher of poetry, short stories, novels, articles, photography, art, and music. We also provide a wide variety of Texas Outlaw Press merchandise. We are passionately involved in politics and social issues, such as prison reform and legalization. In the future we hope to become a platform and a voice for those incarcerated for non violent drug offenses here in Texas. "Texas Outlaw Press was founded when my good friend Jeff Callaway was sent to prison for the non-violent offense of possession of psilocybin mushrooms. Together we founded the Press to publish chapbooks for readings both while Jeff was in and when he got out of the penitentiary system. The legacy of our inception is our on-going interest in working with artist who have had to suffer the indignities and injustices of the hypocritical drug laws in Texas and the U.S. In the coming years we hope to shape the Press into a helpful resource for artists trapped in the Texas prison system for non-violent drug possession. We are also interested in collaborating with Texas's artist and political communities to bring further awareness to the injustices of Marijuana Prohibition and the harms to people's lives caused by incarcerating non-violent drug offenders. Ultimately we would like to help educate citizens and voters about the negative consequences of current drug laws and the benefits of treatment vs. incarceration in regards to serious addiction issues. At the same time we'd like to offer a rewarding forum for self-expression to those negatively impacted by those laws and to our readers and listeners." -John-Paxton Gremillion (Co-Founder) | '''TEXAS OUTLAW PRESS''' is a publisher of poetry, short stories, novels, articles, photography, art, and music. We also provide a wide variety of Texas Outlaw Press merchandise. We are passionately involved in politics and social issues, such as prison reform and legalization. In the future we hope to become a platform and a voice for those incarcerated for non violent drug offenses here in Texas. "Texas Outlaw Press was founded when my good friend Jeff Callaway was sent to prison for the non-violent offense of possession of psilocybin mushrooms. Together we founded the Press to publish chapbooks for readings both while Jeff was in and when he got out of the penitentiary system. The legacy of our inception is our on-going interest in working with artist who have had to suffer the indignities and injustices of the hypocritical drug laws in Texas and the U.S. In the coming years we hope to shape the Press into a helpful resource for artists trapped in the Texas prison system for non-violent drug possession. We are also interested in collaborating with Texas's artist and political communities to bring further awareness to the injustices of Marijuana Prohibition and the harms to people's lives caused by incarcerating non-violent drug offenders. Ultimately we would like to help educate citizens and voters about the negative consequences of current drug laws and the benefits of treatment vs. incarceration in regards to serious addiction issues. At the same time we'd like to offer a rewarding forum for self-expression to those negatively impacted by those laws and to our readers and listeners." -John-Paxton Gremillion (Co-Founder) | ||
'''QUOTES ABOUT TEXAS OUTLAW POET''' | |||
"...And self-expression takes many forms, as exemplified perfectly in Jeff Callaway, the self-described Texas Outlaw Poet. Callaway took to the stage, the dim, amber lighting serving as backdrop, and the slack body language, shaggy hair, and loose fitting clothing serving as a decoy, hiding his focused, fierce and shameless - no, proud - personal revelations through his spoken-word performance. Between drug abuse, stints in jail and harrowing life experiences bordering on nightmarish, no topic was off-limits. Make no mistake, though, Callaway takes ownership of his past, and transforms what might otherwise be construed as regret and despair, into a turbulent, poignant catharsis of the injured soul, and we were all better off for it." Tommy Thomas, local journalist [https://texasoutlawpress.com/blogs/news/underground-arts-fair-remarkable-athens-event-by-tommy-thomas Underground Arts Fair Remarkable Athens Event by Tommy Thomas] | |||
"It is my personal opinion that Burroughs, Kerouac & Rimbaud never died. A highly advanced alien civilization abducted them, extracted their DNA, & genetically engineered “Texas Outlaw Poet” Jeff Callaway. His first collection of poems, “Party Fouls”, is a harrowing road-trip through the fragmented Texas psyche of an artist who has truly survived a “season in hell”. Callaway’s “graduate degree” in poetry was earned in the bloodcurdling corridors of Huntsville State Prison. Like Jack Henry Abbott, Paul Verlaine & other “outsider artists” before him — Callaway has brought his “prison ink lessons” and a life spent-on-the-margins into gut-wrenching redemptive cinematic glory. I don’t read poetry. And I read Callaway’s electric collection in one sitting." -[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848092/ C.M. Talkington], [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110395/?ref_=nm_knf_i1 LOVE & A .45] writer/director | |||
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