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NYC Books Through Bars, a volunteer-led organization that sends books to incarcerated individuals, celebrated its 30th on Sunday, September 13. @brennan_reports stopped by for one of the group’s packaging sessions.

Read the story via the link in our bio. And if you’d like to get in touch with Books Through Bars, you can reach them at info@booksthroughbarsnyc.org.

✍️: @brennan_reports
🎥: @brennan_reports by @nycbooksthroughbars

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Email us to schedule a drop off
Sending your books to prisoners by @nycbooksthroughbars

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This Sunday 9/13 we will be playing at the @nycbooksthroughbars 30th anniversary party at the Hop Shop in BK! 🎉🥳

We’ll play a short set to kick things off at 3pm, followed by a longer, dancier set at 5:15pm 🥁🎺🪊🪗🪈

📝 RSVP at: bit.ly/NYCBTB30

Come celebrate 30 years of sending books to incarcerated community members as an abolitionist practice 📚⛓️‍💥 Black background with confetti and colorful decorative banner on top. Yellow and white text reads:
NYC Books Through Bars
30th Anniversary Party!
Sunday, September 13th, 3 - 6pm
The Hop Shop, 121 Columbia St.,
Brooklyn, NY
Join us to celebrate our 30th year - there will be live music, vegan appetizers and cake, raffle prizes, special guest speakers, and more!
RSVP by 9/4 at bit.ly/NYCBTB30 taken in The Hop Shop by @nycbooksthroughbars

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The good folks at @midwestbooks2p put together this awesome lil poster to include inside of their monthly mailing, which goes to 530 recipients who are incarcerated in various prisons. The poster is a special act of love and solidarity, featuring poems and artwork by Des paired with poems by Champagne, along with information on the Prairieland defendants and their sadistic sentences.

This poster is just one good reason to support your local books-through-bars project—or join or start one—and highlights the beauty and importance of getting written materials to those behind bars.

Another good reason is summed up by Des himself, who emailed this message to pass along to @midwestbooks2p : “Please thank Midwest from me! I do plan on sending them some mail soon. They been super supportive, and we all really appreciated all the books we got from them as well [in the Texas federal prison].”

For those of you who want to make similar posters—or flyers, stickers, zines, buttons, etc.—for your books-thru-bars or other solidarity projects, you can find @desrevol’s art and words freely available on our website at freedes.net, and/or via the free graphics page for “Free Des” on @justseeds website.

#FreeDes #FreeThemAll by @nycbooksthroughbars

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June 2026 Books Through Bars' Pride Month book drive

2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Books Through Bars NYC, and while we will celebrate that milestone throughout the rest of the year, we return with our book bundle program to help support their mission. For $30 (aptly for 30 years!) we will purchase a variety of LGBTBQ+ titles.

Please help us stock up on LGBTQ+ titles in their anniversary year.
$30 purchases an assortment of three titles*
�Order at www.freebirdbooks.com/shop.html

After a few months off from promoting book bundles (the last almanac campaign yielded 500 copies!), we are back to mark our 30th anniversary and efforts to provide the incarcerated with reading material--against a backdrop ever more stringent restrictions.

For June 2026 we reprise our Pride promotion with a variety pack of LGBTQ+ related titles. Your $30 will allow us to purchase three copies from a list narrowed down, including works of fiction (genre and literary), memoirs, humor, history, and even adult coloring books.
While donations of used books in this category continue to be dropped off at the store (and please keep them coming), prisons are establishing higher thresholds for the condition and wear-and-tear of the copies. These unstained, undog-eared editions will help guarantee their delivery to incarcerated readers. by @nycbooksthroughbars

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Y’ALL SATURDAY IS GOING TO BE A PARTYYYYY!!!
Look at all of these beautiful people that are going to be there! ☀️☀️
The Community Fair is stacked with hope, inspiration, determination and celebration!!
Saturday, June 27, 11am to 4pm at the Bedford Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. by @nycbooksthroughbars

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The NYC Books Through Bars Bundle is BACK!!!!

June 2026 Books Through Bars' Pride Month book drive. 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Books Through Bars NYC, and while we will celebrate that milestone throughout the rest of the year, we return with our book bundle program to help support their mission. For $30 (aptly for 30 years!) we will purchase a variety of LGBTBQ+ titles.

Please help us stock up on LGBTQ+ titles in their anniversary year.
$30 purchases an assortment of three titles*

�Order at freebirdbooks.com/shop.html

After a few months off from promoting book bundles (the last almanac campaign yielded 500 copies!), we are back to mark our 30th anniversary and efforts to provide the incarcerated with reading material--against a backdrop ever more stringent restrictions.

For June 2026 we reprise our Pride promotion with a variety pack of LGBTQ+ related titles. Your $30 will allow us to purchase three copies from a list narrowed down by us, including works of fiction (genre and literary), memoirs, humor, history, and even adult coloring books.

While donations of used books in this category continue to be dropped off at the store (and please keep them coming), prisons are establishing higher thresholds for the condition and wear-and-tear of the copies. These unstained, undog-eared editions will help guarantee their delivery to incarcerated readers.

Over 25,000 books to date purchased on behalf of NYC Books Through Bars. taken in Freebird Books & Goods by @nycbooksthroughbars

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As always, no spiral-bound, stains, highlighter, margin notes, underlining. Generally No hardcovers , but we can make some exceptions on a case by case basis. by @nycbooksthroughbars

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Welcome to Adopt a Book Request Week! Using the link in our bio, you can purchase a book for an interested reader impacted by the justice system with Greenlight Bookstore and your purchase will be matched by the Hull Foundation. Greenlight collects donated books and handles delivery, so donors don’t need to pay for shipping. Let’s fulfill some book requests ✅ by @nycbooksthroughbars

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