A Love Locked In: Reopened by J. S. Russell is and expanded, deeply intimate collection of poetry chonicling love from behind prison walls. Written in chronological order and now including additional poems and dates, this edition captures the emotional evolution of a man navigtiong desire, heartbreak, fantasy, regret, faith, and devotion while incarcerated.

Russell's voice is raw, vulnerable, and unfiltered - at times tender and romantic, at times provocative and painfully honest. Through reflections on letters, phone calls, memories, missed opportunities, and imagined futures, he explores what it means to long for connection when physically confined. The poems wrestle with penitentiary passion, loneliness, jealousy, spiritual growth, the intoxicating highs and devastating lows of loving at a distance.

More than a book about romance, A Love Locked In: Reopened is a meditation on humanity - on the universal need to be wanted, remembered, and cherished. It reveals how love can both sustain and endanger the heart when freedom is limited, and how emotional intimacy can transcends bars, time, and circumstances.

This collection invites reader into the complex inner world of a man determined to feel, to hope, and to love - even when love itself becomes a risk.

About the Author

J. S. Russell is a poet, writer, educator and returned citizen who has self-published six books of poetry and two children's books while incarcerated. His work has been published by NYU's Review of Law and Social Change digital publication The Harbinger and PEN America. J. S. Russell's work shines light on the experiences, insights and reflection of an incarcerated black man. He brings awareness to the power of words by emphasizing that he wrote his freedom.

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