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The Book of Judith: Honoring Judith Tannenbaum (1947-2019)
PEN America's Works of Justice series features four selections from "The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts Through Poetry," an anthology in remembrance of teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum (1947-2019), who… More
C. Fausto Cabrera and Zeke Caligiuri on Precarity and Critical Resistance
C. Fausto Cabrera and Zeke Caligiuri speak with PEN America's "Works of Justice" podcast about bringing writing programs into Minnesota prisons and editing "America Precariat" while incarcerated. More
Michigan & Me
In this Works of Justice feature, Curtis Dawkins reflects on how he wrote his debut collection of stories, The Graybar Hotel (Scribner, 2017), while incarcerated, and how the prison… More
Recent Books on Justice and Incarceration
PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Program features ten recently published books on justice and incarceration in the United States. More
An Interview with Prison Library Support Network
PLSN coordinators Manuela Aronofsky and Mia Bruner discuss the process of receiving and answering reference letters from prison. More
Lacino Hamilton on Intentionality and the Language of Justice
Lacino Hamilton, author of "In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom," speaks with PEN America's "Works of Justice" podcast about the intentionality of language… More
Unsealed: In Spite of Prison Walls
In e-messages sent from a Michigan prison, writer Leo Carmona describes the value of finding and losing community between facility transfers. More
Jennifer Baker on Restorative Justice in Young Adult Fiction
Jennifer Baker, author of "Forgive Me Not," speaks with PEN America's "Works of Justice" podcast about how she wrote restorative justice into her young adult novel. More
Denouement
Catherine LaFleur was awarded the inaugural Bell Chevigny Prize for the 2023 Prison Writing Contest. Every year, hundreds of imprisoned people from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and… More
Unsealed: On That Old Rock Pile Prison Quilt Project
In this essay, Jeff Elmore explains his process of making paper collage quilts in prison, which he sends to anyone interested in receiving them. More
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