Our latest report shows a troubling explosion of book bans with the largest numbers of bans in Florida and Iowa.
Join us for an evening of poetry and community on December 12.
Submissions for the 2025 cycle are now open through November 30, 2024.
Learn how state laws are changing what and how subjects are taught on college campuses.
The next four years could reshape the United States for decades to come. Join us in fighting every day to protect the freedom to write and the freedom to read.
R. “Ya’iyr” Carter is a poet and essayist, working to dismantle the prison industrial complex from a cell in Pennsylvania. He is an editor for In the Belly, a revolutionary abolitionist magazine by and for incarcerated people and their communities.