Things That Go Bump in the Night
In this installment of The Illustrated PEN, artist and writer MariNaomi recalls a traumatic encounter she suffered as a teen, and describes how, years later, she still grapples with… More
You Surround Me
I’m not the same as myself // I’m not the opposite of myself // I’m downstream from the values of some ancient warrior class that got to decide what… More
Treatment for a Story
"She curls up in bed. Pulls the dirty sheets over her and starts to doze...Starts to doze until the room pulls her awake, overpowers her with its clutter, its… More
Two Poems by Nicole Callihan
These are the things I did with the stick: / chewed it, waved it to the sky, poked myself / in the eye, pretended it was a daisy, pretended… More
A Wretch Like Me: Sad/Black/Ugly/Queer
Artist Ebin Lee takes a visual deep-dive into depression, body dysmorphia, and cultural invisibility in this piece presented by guest editor MariNaomi. More
Three Poems by Lindsay Turner
the person I love / has a yellow spot in his eye / if he closes that eye several states away / does it still exist // the bells… More
The PEN Ten with Ming Di
"I don’t think it’s the responsibility of writers to do anything. We do it anyway—out of consciousness, not responsibility." More
The Voice of Silence
There were no voices to be heard, no words or fragments of sentences coming from the couple sitting there. Until I realized, with a quick glimpse, that they were… More
Three Poems from Feeld
unforld mye folde / lik / a chylde debarkynge the old / treee / ekspektynge a hole / mye fase 2 the flore / off a feeld / becums… More
Five Poems by Feliz Lucia Molina
(code of) a black cat projected onto a white wall / (code of) a 404 Not Found projected onto a white cat / (code of) a flower painting projected… More
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