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“Do you really want to know why the caged bird sings?”: On Marlon Peterson’s Abolitionist Memoir
Emma Stamen reviews Marlon Peterson’s Abolitionist Memoir Bird Uncaged (Bold Type Books, 2021) More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with K-Ming Chang
I'm interested in the language serving itself, and reveling in the language and sound as their own form of meaning and beauty. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Kelley Nicole Girod
Recording our lived experience is a declaration of our humanity in a world where many of us still aren’t seen as fully human. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Gabriela Alemán
I think that that is what fiction does best, mine “accepted” truths. Bring to the forefront what is whispered about behind closed doors. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Suchitra Vijayan
It's easy to retreat into despair, easier to forget. So now I write in anger, and I write not to surrender my rage. More
The “Burning Poet(s)” Trilingual Poetry Days in Armenia: A Great Success
When I moved from New York to Tbilisi, Georgia last year with the intention of building closer ties between PEN America and the Eurasia region, I never expected so… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Leila Mottley
Stories expand our ideas of our world, or reflect back to us our place in it. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Arinze Ifeakandu
It was clear to me how deeply I loved Nigeria, which made my anger and heartbreak at the dysfunction even more incandescent. More
Benevolent Terror: Dorothy E. Roberts on Reimagining the Child Welfare System
Sophia Ramirez reviews Dorothy E. Roberts' new book Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books, 2022). More
5 Myths about Educational Gag Orders
The legislators behind these gag orders are not interested in a productive back-and-forth with educators; what they want is simply to dictate the terms of teachers’ surrender. More