Trump Administration’s Attempt to Intimidate Publishing House Unlawful and Unbecoming
Yet again the Trump Administration is attempting to intimidate a publishing house by threatening legal retaliation in an attempt to keep a book off the shelves and out the… More
Diversity In Book Publishing Isn’t Just About Writers — Marketing Matters, Too
The 2016 shortlist for the prestigious PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction, which comes with a covetable $25,000 award, was filled entirely by writers of color. More
Truth and Solutions: Roundtable on Equity in Children’s and Young Adult Book Publishing
Part of The PEN Equity Project, Fatima Shaik, Cheryl Klein, Wade Hudson, Daniel José Older, Robie Harris, and Alvina Ling discuss equity in children's and young adult publishing. 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
U.S. Publishers Pledge to Address Chinese Censorship
Twelve leading U.S. publishers have signed onto a PEN American Center pledge to monitor and address incidents of censorship in translations of books by foreign authors for the Chinese… More
Publishing world gathers this week for book conventions
PEN American Center, the literary and human rights organization, is planning two off-site events to protest China's history of censorship and suppression of writers. One protest will feature three… More
Three Poems by Mark Levine
But I was about to say / When Chance came and cut me down with his Wehrmacht / That I was present on the assembly floor / And accountable… More
from On Paradise
Everything in and of war in war. / Every flight and branch and wing, / A body of war: a woman brushing a boy’s hair— / War—the wild turkey… More
Three Poems by Camille Rankine
I have decided I am not // afraid and in this hopeful state I call out to the living / we have been cleansed word has come down /… More
Three Poems by Roberto Tejada
Even with slurred tongue and cracked teeth I discern a benign country beyond for me to / confer there my night custody and coat of arms. More
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