PEN Pals: Margarita Engle and Padma Venkatraman Use Words as Bridges
“I knew that poetry could help me feel empathy and compassion as well as joy. I hoped that would be true for young readers and writers too.” More
The PEN Pod: On Diverse Latinx Voices and Identities with Saraciea J. Fennell
“You can imagine how intense it is to navigate the world when you are constantly having to prove your identity, constantly having to reaffirm, ‘This is who I am.’” More
The PEN Pod: Spotlighting the Readers of New York with Uli Beutter Cohen
“My goal was to document voices that were not heard the same way that others were, and I wanted to make sure to hand a mic to my local… More
DARE: After Mueller Report Findings, Republican National Committee Plans to ‘Slam and Shame the Media’
Following the release of the Mueller report, Republican National Committee slams media as 'obsessed with the Democrat lie.' Senate Republicans push two... More
Roxane Gay on Diversity in Publishing
In anticipation of the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival, today we share a clip from the 2016 festival in which Hunger author Roxane Gay discusses issues of diversity in… More
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Researchers debate how best to counter false narratives and racial stereotypes when it comes to the spread of disinformation in the Latinx community. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-latinx-community-and-covid-disinformation-campaigns
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we will be donating 75,000 copies of THE SENTENCES THAT CREATE US to prison libraries, as well as higher education & creative writing programs working with justice-involved communities. Learn more: https://pen.org/prison-writing/the-sentences-that-create-us/
