A Reading from “The Big Smoke” by Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka reads "Hubert's Museum & Flea Circus," "Battle Royale," "Sporting Life," "Rememory," and "Verdi's Il Travatore" from The Big Smoke, a 2013 National Book Award finalist for poetry. The… More
Allyson Paty Reads “Millennial”
Allyson Paty visited the PEN America offices last week and recorded her poem "Millenial." Read the poem in its entirety here. More
PEN Members Reading at Franklin Park
On Monday, June 10, PEN partnered with the Franklin Park Reading Series for an evening of readings and conversation with PEN Members old and new: Edwidge Danticat, Matt Bell,… More
Translation Slam
A Festival favorite for six years running, this event delves into the change that happens when one text is translated into another. The battle plays out in an onstage… More
An Evening With Lapham’s Quarterly: Katherine Waterston
Katherine Waterston reads from Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre at An Evening with Lapham's Quarterly, part of the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival More
PEN Members Reading at WORD Bookstore
New and longtime members Jonathan Dee, Jennifer Gilmore, Ben Greenman, Leigh Newman, and Joan Silber read from their recent works, including once piece composed entirely of book blurbs. More
Earl Lovelace Reads from Is Just a Movie
Earl Lovelace reads from his novel Is Just a Movie at the Opening Night Reading of PEN's 2013 World Voices Festival. More
Joshua Edwards Reads “Red Storm Days”
Joshua Edwards stopped by the PEN America offices to record an excerpt, entitled "Red Storm Days," from his poem "Agonistes." Complete with hustling, bustling PEN America offices noises. More
Opening Night Reading: Bravery
The 2013 PEN World Voices Festival kicks off with a stellar line-up of authors, including Najwan Darwish, Joy Harjo, Mikhail Shishkin, Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, Ursula Krechel, David Fraktk,… More
An Evening with McSweeney’s
McSweeney’s contributors read excerpts from their translations in McSweeney’s Issue 42—an ambitious experiment that took twelve stories through six phases of translation in a variety of languages, granting each… More
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