Notes on Critical Race Theory: An Essay by Gregory Pardlo
Artist and PEN America Trustee Greg Pardlo writes that Critical Race Theory is "a periodizing frame for our historical moment." More
The PEN Pod: Getting Reacquainted with Ourselves with Gregory Pardlo
“Having the time to work through the mundane concerns and slip into the more abstract rabbit holes and turns in each other's minds has turned out to be a… More
PEN Podcast: Reimagining the Mainstream Panel Discussion
Gregory Pardlo, Willie Perdomo, Saeed Jones, and Cate Marvin talk about equity in publishing and how to diversify mainstream literary culture in today's #PENpodcast. More
Poet Gregory Pardlo: ‘I won the Pulitzer: why am I invisible?’
Pardlo, Saeed Jones, Cate Marvin and Willie Perdomo excoriated the publishing industry for its lack of writers not white and male at a Manhattan panel More
Equity in Publishing: What Should Editors Be Doing?
In light of recent conversations on the lack of equity and diversity in the publishing industry, editors and other industry gatekeepers weigh in on how to mark out a… More
Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf Joins PEN American Center as New Curator of Literary Programs
A native of Martinique, Rosaz Shariyf has over a decade of experience in curating public arts, educational, and advocacy programs More
Controlled Abandon: A Conversation with Gregory Pardlo
In the realm beyond conventional reason there can be found opportunities to transcend the categories that corrupt our social interactions. More
Marginalia
The Fulton St. Foodtown is playing Motown and I’m surprised / at how quickly my daughter picks up the tune. And soon /the two of us, plowing rows of… More
Revisiting the Racial Mountain
In “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston Hughes’s famous essay of 1926, Hughes describes his disappointment with a statement made by “one of the most promising of the… More
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