Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing
Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing is a vital work demonstrating that prison writing represents a vibrant part of American literature. More
Minutes Before Six
“You are going to have a rather interesting map of what a person goes through during the years preceding an execution. He ruminated, “Sometimes I think that the missing… More
A Shock to the System
Natural disasters often lay bare a society's grim realities and sometimes shock citizens into political action. Twenty years ago today, a catastrophic earthquake in Mexico City shook that society… More
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Thank you to these authors for standing up and speaking up. @LindaSuePark Ami Polonsky @ElloEllenOh to save young people's lives and fight for their #fREADom to have access to books that reflect their reality and provide hope. Thanks to @FLFreedomRead @diversebooks @PENamerica https://twitter.com/FLFreedomRead/status/1600529718855491586
‘Putin has repeatedly claimed that Ukrainian culture and language simply don’t exist. By targeting art museums, music halls, libraries, theaters, and historical sites, he attempts to make it so.’
Brilliant @ayadakhtar for @PENamerica https://pen.org/on-war-and-cultural-erasure/
This is a worry in Tx upcoming legislative session that a punitive state law will lead districts to overreact and censor themselves out of fear. (like this district in MO removing The Hate U Give). @penamerica @uabookbans https://www.emissourian.com/local_news/st-clair-district-pulls-book-from-library-shelves-as-schools-statewide-grapple-with-new-state/article_f624eaa4-7681-11ed-b2ee-b7df4d46e30a.html