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Remember This: On Celes Tisdale’s “When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal”

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By: Malcolm Tariq | November 17, 2022

Malcolm Tariq reviews Celes Tisdale's "When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal" (Duke University Press, 2022). More

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[VIRTUAL] Worker Writers School 10th Anniversary Celebration & Book Release

Saturday, May 1, 2021 | 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm ET
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PEN to Paper: The Discipline of the Haiku with Mark Nowak

PEN World VoicesJune 11, 2020

Poet Mark Nowak shares a haiku exercise he developed for reckoning with the pandemic at the Worker Writers School, PEN America’s writing program for low-wage workers. More

Say It Loud! Stories from New York’s Worker-Writers

Saturday, April 30, 2016 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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Literary Quest: Westbeth Edition

Thursday, April 28, 2016 | 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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Say It Loud! Stories from New York’s Worker-Writers (video)

May 10, 2015

Stories from New York’s global working class by writers from Domestic Workers United, the Brazilian Immigrant Center, and more, guided by Mark Nowak. More

The PEN Ten with Mark Nowak

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By: PEN America | April 26, 2015

"Workers writing poems, as Jacques Rancière says in Proletarian Nights, is still a pretty radical idea." More

Watching the Meter: Poetry from the Taxi Drivers Workshop

Saturday, May 4, 2013 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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