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An Interview with 2022 DREAMing Out Loud Contributors, Aria Gallo and Luz Aguirre
We spoke with 2022 DREAMing Out Loud cohorts Aria Gallo and Luz Guirre about their submissions to the PEN America DREAMing Out Loud anthology. More
Introducing I am climbing the stairs that I create with these words all the way to the top: A NaPoWriMo Zine
PEN America's Sophia Ramirez introduces our newest Prison Writing poetry zine, "I am climbing the stairs that I create with these words all the way to the top," for… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Chinelo Okparanta
It’s a wonderful thing to learn the rules, and to learn them well. Only by learning them can you learn the clever ways to break them. More
“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