The PEN Ten: An Interview with Angie Cruz
"I think stories do a lot of work to help us understand how and where we live, and they also can help us to step back and find a… More
PEN Poetry Series: Nin
These days, looking out at the bleached billboards, / or the rows of jacarandas lining the street, // I hardly have cause to remember. / Charred cars in Venezuela… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Dohra Ahmad
"The biggest threat to free expression has always been, and will continue to be, unequal access to publication and publicity." More
Works of Justice: How to Write a Novel in a Month (While in Prison), Week 3
Updates from week 3 of our NaNoWriMo challenge. Four currently incarcerated fiction writers are working as peer facilitators with writing groups in the prisons where they live. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Azar Nafisi
"Literature resists tyranny mainly by refusing to remain silent, by giving voice to the voiceless, the silenced and the suppressed." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
"If you’re stuck in your own work, read someone else’s." More
Works of Justice: An Interview with Raquel Almazán
A conversation with Raquel Almazán about her writing, her play La Paloma Prisoner and her fight against mass incarceration. More
Works of Justice: How to Write a Novel in a Month (While in Prison), Week 2
Updates from week 2 of our NaNoWriMo challenge. Four currently incarcerated fiction writers are working as peer facilitators with writing groups in the prison where they live. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Poet Tsitsi Ella Jaji
"Poetry is a mode of discovery—I don’t know my identity except through the writing, making, contemplating of it." More
Two Poems by Callie Garnett
This week in the PEN Poetry Series, PEN America features two poems by Callie Garnett. Serial Mom If obsession arrests you in time Consider me ten, when I turned to mom &… More
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Hong Kong police have made 621 requests to remove social media posts allegedly containing misinformation or defamatory content since January, marking a significant increase from the 81 made in 2017 and 32 in 2018: https://bit.ly/34dP0Ej via @HongKongFP.
. @poetswritersinc has shared their annual look at poets whose debut collections are extraordinarily impactful & insightful. We are thrilled to see PEN America's former Emerging Voices fellow Sara Borjas (@saraborhaz) included among them: https://bit.ly/2Ec953u.