Works of Justice is a monthly newsletter from PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing that spotlights key figures, writers, and artists who are critically reshaping the conversation on mass incarceration, advocacy, and justice in the United States.
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Works of Justice Blog Posts
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The Book of Judith: Honoring Judith Tannenbaum (1947-2019)
PEN America’s Works of Justice series features four selections from “The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts Through Poetry,” an anthology…
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C. Fausto Cabrera and Zeke Caligiuri on Precarity and Critical Resistance
C. Fausto Cabrera and Zeke Caligiuri speak with PEN America’s “Works of Justice” podcast about bringing writing programs into Minnesota…
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Michigan & Me
In this Works of Justice feature, Curtis Dawkins reflects on how he wrote his debut collection of stories, The Graybar…
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Recent Books on Justice and Incarceration
PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program features ten recently published books on justice and incarceration in the United States.
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An Interview with Prison Library Support Network
PLSN coordinators Manuela Aronofsky and Mia Bruner discuss the process of receiving and answering reference letters from prison.
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Unsealed: In Spite of Prison Walls
In e-messages sent from a Michigan prison, writer Leo Carmona describes the value of finding and losing community between facility…
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Jennifer Baker on Restorative Justice in Young Adult Fiction
Jennifer Baker, author of “Forgive Me Not,” speaks with PEN America’s “Works of Justice” podcast about how she wrote restorative…
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Turning Sentences Around
In this Works of Justice exclusive, Robert Lee Williams reflects on how PEN America’s “The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting…
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A Conversation with Brooklyn Public Library’s Justice Initiatives Program
PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Fellow Valentina Flores speaks with Brooklyn Public Library’s Diego Sandoval-Hernandez on the work and…