The PEN Pod: Lessons Learned in Uncertainty with Fatima Shaik
“That uncertainty can sort of be tamed, for me, by talking to other people and sharing on the phone, and by focusing on small things, small pleasures.” More
New Orleans Stories, Before and After Hurricane Katrina: What Went Missing and What Got Found
A year after the hurricane, the PEN American Center’s Children’s Committee organized a partnership with the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, the only school to reopen in the… More
Katrina: 10 Years Later
In this second of two blog posts commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Fatima Shaik reflects on the work of PEN's Children's and Young Adult Book Committee in… More
The Federal Flood
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, educator and poet Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy discusses how New Orleans is rebuilding, and shares two poems about the disaster and… More