Audio + Video

Agi Mishol discusses Hebrew and reads a poem in the language at BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Mixed Media, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Lemon Andersen reads a diary entry by Gary Salinas, a prisoner in the Allred Unit in Iowa Park, Texas, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More

Bruce MacVittie reads from Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi at the BenettonTalk Young Writers Series, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Yiyun Li reads her story "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" at the BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Mixed Media, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Eric Bogosian reads a second excerpt from "A Journal of a Prisoner" by David Lightner at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More

Patricia Smith reads Diane Hamill Metzger's "Panopticon," winner of an honorable mention for poetry in PEN's 2005 Prison Writing Contest, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More