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“Never refuse to hear the cry of the anguished, or the laughter in the blues.” Nikki Giovanni pays tribute to…
This excerpt is part of the Twentieth-Century Masters Tribute to James Baldwin, sponsored by PEN American Center and Lincoln Center,…
In America I’m not really a private person. No, I’m a public person. And a public person cannot write. Writers…
Malcolm Tariq reviews Celes Tisdale’s “When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal” (Duke University Press, 2022).
“The capital and complex imagination of black people has always been banned, unless it is supportive in the service of…
“So my act of resistance is to first and foremost curate and protect joy in my life, and second to…
PEN America sent an open letter to the Urbandale, Iowa school district to reverse an order to remove a list…
“Writing from a true place for me is more about creating stories that resonate with my readers so that even…
Edward Albee, Don DeLillo, John Green, Rachel Kushner, and twenty-five other leading American writers joined PEN American Center today in…
