POEMobile Pop-Up in Bed-Stuy (video)
POEMobile, a hand-painted truck that projects poems onto buildings, brought a light show and live performance into the heart of Bed-Stuy to highlight a new box set of African… More
PEN World Voices Festival: Edwidge Danticat on how “a story is never really yours”
Edwidge Danticat spoke to John Freeman about how stories are community property, what it means to write for others, and finding a sense of home in Haitian art and… More
2015 PEN World Voices Festival: Ninety Minutes, Three Minds (video)
Moderated by Vanity Fair staff editor Anderson Tepper, these conversations get up close with three top African writers: Adéwálé Àjàdí (Nigeria), activist and author of the hit play Abyssinia;… More
Prayer and Meditation: Sayed Kashua (audio)
For this contemplative evening, an assembly of writers and artists took the stage to read their original, deeply personal prayers and meditations. Featuring Sayed Kashua. More
PEN World Voices Festival: A Night of Prayer and Meditation
The desired effect—of evoking a religious service—was, by my accounting, achieved. As I sat, I felt my pulse slow. The setting, and the task at hand—giving ourselves over to… More
The Tubman Sisterhood
Not only was Donya about to become Egypt’s first woman president, she was also openly bisexual and a poet, the perfect antidote to decades of hypermasculine Egyptian politics. More
The PEN World Voices Festival As It Happened: “Divine Punishment”
There were moments on the panel when Ramirez and Caistor spoke like old friends. They talked about meeting for the first time at the Managua Book Festival in 1986.… More
The PEN World Voices Festival As It Happened: “Armenian Genocide: A Dark Paradigm”
The event was not a bleak centennial memorial but rather an inspiring commemoration of Armenian authors who continue to endure through the cultural lives of their work. More
2015 World Voices Festival Opening Night: Zanele Muholi (audio)
For this flagship event, speakers gave original, humorous, and lyrical insights for what the world will look like in the year 2050. More
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