Last year, the Poetry Foundation was scorched by its own supporters for not sounding woke enough while Black Lives Matter protests were underway across the United States.

Now, in order to prove its social justice credentials, the foundation’s magazine is publishing an issue full of cons and ex-cons (“current and formerly incarcerated people”), including one guy convicted of possessing more than 500,000 images of child pornography.

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