A Short Play
"They can lock my body up but they can't cage my mind. I'm still free. Just cause you're locked up don't mean you can't be free." More
Mass Incarceration: The Shame of a Nation
"This new criminal injustice system is doing exactly what it was designed to do; exactly what Jim Crow and slavery did before it." More
Lexie’s Books
"It is the essence of transformation, the protean nature of our imagination and expressions that compel us to write, to rant and rave and strive to be heard." More
Time Reversal Invariance
"It used to be that physicists / thought the world might run / the same forward as in reverse: / that is to say, we had no means / to know which… More
“No Language Has Power Over Another”: A PEN Ten Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
"The process of translation makes clear that no one language has power over another." More
Works of Justice: An Interview with Punk-Writer Sean Thomas Dunne
"Cathartic release is a byproduct of my desire to say something that matters to you." More
Two Interviews with PEN Out Loud Participants Salman Rushdie and Marlon James
"PEN America stands as a reminder that literature is essential in speaking truth to power, especially when it is a personal truth at odds with the powers that be." More
The Power of Storytelling: A PEN Ten Interview with Kali Fajardo-Anstine
"I treat my life as inspiration and I am open to experiences, to coincidences, to watching for signs." More
Two Interviews and a PEN Out Loud Playlist by Rion Amilcar Scott and Vinson Cunningham
"Books and their ideas gain so much more power when people come together to discuss them and think about them." More
Works of Justice: An Interview with Poet Louise K Waakaa’igan
"It is through and with my writing that I get to be who I am, a multifaceted Anishinaabekwe with a voice and a story to share." More
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