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<![CDATA[ponyXpress: EDOVO ]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/s/edovohttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!udX7!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F94537814-90c0-4674-ab76-2a4913e35502_256x256.pngponyXpress: EDOVO https://www.theponyxpress.org/s/edovoSubstackTue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:30 GMT<![CDATA[LIFE LINES: SOLITARY JOURNAL PROJECT]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/life-lines-solitary-journal-projecthttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/life-lines-solitary-journal-projectTue, 24 Mar 2026 04:11:34 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT LIFE LINES: SOLITARY JOURNAL PROJECT
Bridgeworks Oregon has collected prompts and responses from the PonyXpress workshops sessions run weekly at OSP on the activities floor. You will start your day by responding to each prompt. If you are regular writer, think of this journal as a warm-up for your day of writing. If you don’t consider yourself a writer, give this a chance and see what you discover about yourself.

Shu

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]]><![CDATA[PONYXPRESS: TWO ESSAYS]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/ponyxpress-two-essayshttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/ponyxpress-two-essaysThu, 19 Mar 2026 21:34:16 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

PONYXPRESS SKILLS: TWO ESSAYS
This worksheet describes two different strategies for writing an essay.

Edovo

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]]><![CDATA[CARRY IT FORWARD, PONYXPRESS ISSUE 2]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/carry-it-forward-ponyxpress-issuehttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/carry-it-forward-ponyxpress-issueThu, 19 Mar 2026 19:21:33 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT CARRY IT FORWARD: BEST OF ISSUE 2
The editors at Oregon State Penitentiary selected the best work from the second issue of the PonyXpress and collected it into a printed version to be distributed to the contributors, and this PDF version published inside on Edovo.

Edovo

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]]><![CDATA[EMBERS & BARK]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/embers-and-barkhttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/embers-and-barkThu, 19 Mar 2026 19:20:10 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT EMBERS & BARK
Bridgeworks Oregon’s writing program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon produced the collaborative chapbook with the women taking the lead to select themes and produce work that they refined over the time and finally, performed for their peers in the prison’s chapel. You can purchase a copy of the book through the link above or download it for free below.

Edovo

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]]><![CDATA[PONYXPRESS: MAPPING WRITING]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/ponyxpress-mapping-writinghttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/ponyxpress-mapping-writingThu, 19 Mar 2026 19:19:03 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

PONYXPRESS SKILLS: MAPPING WRITING

This worksheet presents ideas to plan your writing.

Edovo

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]]><![CDATA[ON LOVE, PONYXPRESS ISSUE 3]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/on-love-ponyxpress-issue-3https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/on-love-ponyxpress-issue-3Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:17:46 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ON LOVE: BEST OF ISSUE 3 | 2024
The editors at Oregon State Penitentiary selected the best work from the third issue of the PonyXpress and collected it into a printed version to be distributed to the contributors, and this PDF version published inside on Edovo. | TDS

Edovo

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]]><![CDATA[LISTEN & RESPOND: THREE SONGS]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/listen-and-respond-three-songshttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/listen-and-respond-three-songsThu, 19 Mar 2026 19:11:52 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT THREE SONGS BY DANNY WILSON
This course starts with reading lyrics and then, watching a performance of each song by Bridgework’s own Danny Wilson. Download the videos and the 7-page PDF which corresponds with the course on the Edovo tablets under the heading Bridgeworks Oregon courses. The course and the music are free on Edovo for folks inside. Try a few activities and share the resulting writing with a friend or family member.

Three Songs

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]]><![CDATA[SELF-GUIDED WRITING: ON LOVE]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/self-guided-writing-on-lovehttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/self-guided-writing-on-loveThu, 19 Mar 2026 19:10:00 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT ON LOVE: ISSUE 3
The editors at Oregon State Penitentiary selected the best work from the third issue of the PonyXpress. This course presents a selection of poetry and prose by the workshop writers, accompanied by prompts to fuel course participants’ journal writing. The Best of PonyXpress, Issue 3 can be read in its entirety on the PonyXpress and is available on Edovo. “On Love” course is designed like the PonyXpress workshops. It encourages self-reflective writing and discussion with a reading partner.

Onlove

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]]><![CDATA[LISTEN & RESPOND: EVERYTHING'S GONNA TURN OUT FINE]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/listen-and-respond-everythings-gonnahttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/listen-and-respond-everythings-gonnaThu, 19 Mar 2026 19:05:17 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT EVERYTHING’S GONNA TURN OUT FINE
Bridgework’s own Danny Wilson and house band Luther’s Boots follows up Darkened Road Ahead with this record in 2024. Danny Wilson assembled the original band to play a few prison shows in Oregon, recreating Johnny Cash’s “At Folsom Prison” record to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its release. The summer of 2018, the band toured Oregon prisons playing to folks who rarely experience music outside of their personal headphones.

Since, 2018 the band has reformed, adding and subtracting members. This current configuration of players has been actively involved in transforming this set of Danny’s songs. Guitar player Zach Holden and bass player Wyatt Unger both studied jazz and have been playing together since they were teens. Jarred Bozza also a student of jazz joined the band during Covid.

The first of these songs date as far back a 2018 and have been collected and played in a few local bars with Luther’s Boots, and in solo shows inside prisons. The ghost of musical crushes and honky tonks have melded with the players, and those first songs sketches to make this record. Danny carries a small soft-cover journal into prison with him for the weekly writing workshop we run at Oregon State Penitentiary. The five-minute warm up writing exercises are sketches to loosen up all the writers and we write alongside the group. We talk a lot about the distillation process in our group. One of us will get up and collect the words and ideas we hear as the group members read their reflections. It is a way of distilling ideas that sing and looking them on the board with fresh eyes.

This 17-page downloadable PDF corresponds with the course on the Edovo tablets under the heading Bridgeworks Oregon courses. You can listen to Everything is Gonna Turn out Fine here. The course and the music are free on Edovo for folks inside. Try a few activities and share the resulting writing with a friend or family member.

Everything

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]]><![CDATA[OBSERVE & WRITE: HAIKU]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/observe-and-write-haikuhttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/observe-and-write-haikuThu, 19 Mar 2026 19:03:59 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT OBSERVE & WRITE: HAIKU
This course intends to provide a brief introduction to haiku and its cousins and includes some meditative components to act as writing prompts for the lessons. The course is designed like the PonyXpress workshops. It encourages self-reflective writing and discussion with a reading partner.

Haiku

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]]><![CDATA[CROSSING STATE LINES]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/crossing-state-lineshttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/crossing-state-linesTue, 23 Dec 2025 19:10:47 GMT

Summer of 2025, we packed up the Tibetan Singing Bowl and Danny’s guitar to travel to Santa Fe. We gave a talk about the work inside with the Pony at Museum of International Folk Art in conjunction with their exhibition, Between the Lines: Art and Advocacy in Prison. In addition, we spent three days at Penitentiary of New Mexico. Danny played music, and I led writing workshops in both minimum and supermax. Download the story below.

Ponyxpress

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]]><![CDATA[WRITING PARTNERS]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/writing-partnershttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/writing-partnersSun, 19 May 2024 19:03:07 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We were inspired by Enrique Bautista, who for years purchased a book for himself and one for his daughter so they could read and discuss it in their visits. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

PONYXPRESS SKILLS: WRITING PARTNERS

This worksheet presents ideas to help give and receive feedback in writing groups.

Edovo

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]]><![CDATA[LISTEN & RESPOND: DARKENED ROAD AHEAD]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/listen-and-respond-darkened-roadhttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/listen-and-respond-darkened-roadSun, 19 May 2024 19:02:41 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We were inspired by Enrique Bautista, who for years purchased a book for himself and one for his daughter so they could read and discuss it in their visits. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT DARKENED ROAD AHEAD
Bridgework’s own Danny Wilson wrote these songs after the first tour of Oregon Prisons while he was playing Johnny Cash’s music and meeting folks inside. When he finished recording the album, he intended to start the third prison tour to play this record. That was March 2020 …

This course uses the record Darkened Road Ahead as vehicle to consider the life of Johnny Cash and his prison concerts. This 30-page downloadable PDF corresponds with the course on the Edovo tablets under the heading Bridgeworks Oregon courses. You can download the record from any of the usual places, or purchase it on Bandcamp. The course and the music are free on Edovo for folks inside. Try a few activities and share the resulting writing with a friend or family member.

Think of these courses as a bit of an experiment. We will appreciate any and all feedback to make the courses better, more fun, easier to use. | TDS

Dra

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]]><![CDATA[ROOTS MEET BELOW THE CROSSROADS]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/roots-meet-below-the-crossroads-b72https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/roots-meet-below-the-crossroads-b72Sun, 19 May 2024 19:02:04 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We were inspired by Enrique Bautista, who for years purchased a book for himself and one for his daughter so they could read and discuss it in their visits. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT ROOTS MEET UNDER THE CROSSROADS
Bridgeworks Oregon’s writing program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon produced the collaborative chapbook, Roots Meet Below the Crossroads with the women taking the lead to select themes and produce work that they refined over the time and finally, performed for their peers in the prison’s chapel. You can purchase a copy of the book through the link or download it for free below. | TDS

Crossroads

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]]><![CDATA[TIBETAN SINGING BOWL]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/tibetan-singing-bowlhttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/tibetan-singing-bowlSun, 19 May 2024 19:01:24 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We were inspired by Enrique Bautista, who for years purchased a book for himself and one for his daughter so they could read and discuss it in their visits. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT THE TIBETAN SINGING BOWL
Bridgeworks Oregon’s prison workshop sessions begin with the ringing of this bowl. The tone draws everyone in the room together for a moment, and then, a reading marks the beginning of a session. | TDS

]]><![CDATA[OSP'S MEMORIAL HEALING GARDEN]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/osps-memorial-healing-gardenhttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/osps-memorial-healing-gardenSun, 19 May 2024 19:00:55 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We were inspired by Enrique Bautista, who for years purchased a book for himself and one for his daughter so they could read and discuss it in their visits. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT MEMORIAL HEALING GARDEN

Working in concert with the Oregon State Penitentiary administration, OSP’s Asian Pacific Family Club raised the funds and donations to build a Japanese garden within the walls of the prison.

Healinggarden

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]]><![CDATA[CASH: MUSIC, LEGACY, & REDEMPTION]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/cash-music-legacy-and-redemptionhttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/cash-music-legacy-and-redemptionSun, 19 May 2024 18:59:32 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We were inspired by Enrique Bautista, who for years purchased a book for himself and one for his daughter so they could read and discuss it in their visits. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT CASH: MUSIC, LEGACY, & REDEMPTION
Filled with stories from the first Oregon prison tour, this 33-page chapbook recounts the origins of a project that picked up the thread of Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison record played 50 years later in Oregon prisons. You can purchase a copy of the book from Bridgeworks Oregon or download it for free below. Encourage your person inside to look it up and read about the connection between Johnny Cash and his prison concerts, it’s free to read on Edovo. | TDS

Cash

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]]><![CDATA[SELF-GUIDED WRITING: THE ANCESTORS]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/self-guided-writing-the-ancestorshttps://www.theponyxpress.org/p/self-guided-writing-the-ancestorsSun, 19 May 2024 18:57:01 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We were inspired by Enrique Bautista, who for years purchased a book for himself and one for his daughter so they could read and discuss it in their visits. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT THE ANCESTORS: BEST OF ISSUE 1
The editors at Oregon State Penitentiary selected the best work from the first issue of the PonyXpress. This course presents a selection of poetry and prose by the workshop writers, accompanied by prompts to fuel course participants’ journal writing. The Best of PonyXpress, Issue 1 can be read in its entirety on the PonyXpress and is available on Edovo. “The Ancestors” course is designed like the PonyXpress workshops. It encourages self-reflective writing and discussion with a reading partner. | TDS

Pxp

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]]><![CDATA[THE ANCESTORS, PONYXPRESS ISSUE 1]]>https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/the-ancestors-ponyxpress-issue-1https://www.theponyxpress.org/p/the-ancestors-ponyxpress-issue-1Sun, 19 May 2024 18:55:13 GMT

Bridgeworks Oregon is working with Edovo.org (the free platform on prison tablets) to design and publish resources and self-guided study courses for folks inside and their family and friends. We were inspired by Enrique Bautista, who for years purchased a book for himself and one for his daughter so they could read and discuss it in their visits. We believe crossover activities in the humanities provide much needed shared experiences for everyone — and we feel that is critical to cultivate creative expression for people in prison.

ABOUT THE ANCESTORS: BEST OF ISSUE 1
The editors at Oregon State Penitentiary selected the best work from the first issue of the PonyXpress and collected it into a printed version to be distributed to the contributors, and this PDF version published inside on Edovo. | TDS

Pxp

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