Remember This: On Celes Tisdale’s “When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal”
Malcolm Tariq reviews Celes Tisdale's "When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal" (Duke University Press, 2022). More
PEN to Paper: The Discipline of the Haiku with Mark Nowak
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 (video)
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
"Workers writing poems, as Jacques Rancière says in Proletarian Nights, is still a pretty radical idea." More
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