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Power to the People: A World Voices Festival Reading List

Recommended Reading

The books in this reading list push boundaries and challenge inherited narratives. We hope you’ll check out each of these titles and also join us for the virtual festival. More

Headshots and names of Hala Alyan, Jay Molina, Brian Lindstrom, and Felice Belle with multicolor ripped paper on bottom edge

Narrative 4 Presents: The Power of Story Exchanges

Friday, May 21, 2021 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET
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DREAMing Out Loud Annual Public Reading

Saturday, May 22, 2021 | 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm ET
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DREAMing on the Virtual Stage: Readings of Plays in Progress

Thursday, May 20, 2021 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm ET
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Pleasure, Power, and Profanity: John McWhorter and Jeffrey Goldberg

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET
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Verses on the Vanguard: Russian Poetry Today

Friday, May 21, 2021 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET
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On Revolutionary Love and Poetic Resistance

Friday, May 21, 2021 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET
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Mining History

Thursday, May 20, 2021 | 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm ET
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Blindness

Friday, May 21, 2021 | 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm ET
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Black Abundance and Radical Love

Saturday, May 22, 2021 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm ET
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In "Unsealed," a new #WorksOfJustice column delving deep into the mail that our Prison and Justice Writing Program receives daily from incarcerated writers, PEN America's @JessAbolafia_ describes getting a letter that arrived torn in half. Read more: https://pen.org/unsealed-severed-sentences.

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