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PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.
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Postgraduate Fellow Emma Stammen talks with 2018-2019 Writing for Justice Fellow David Sanchez about his debut novel "All Day is a Long Time"—a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story encompassing addiction, mental illness, homelessness, incarceration, and sobriety.โดย PEN America
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To learn more about the importance of prison journalism and the challenges of reporting from behind bars during the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke with Yukari Kane and Shaheen Pasha, co-founders and -executive directors of the Prison Journalism Project. In this episode, Kane and Pasha discuss the power of teaching journalism behind bars, particularly …
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In this Works of Justice episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Erika Cohn, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning director and producer. Her newest documentary, "Belly of the Beast," exposes modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California women's prisons. This moving and informative interview followed a private screening of the film fo…
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In this Works of Justice episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Bruce Western, a professor of Sociology and Social Justice and codirector of the Justice Lab at Columbia University. A leader in the field of criminal justice reform, Dr. Western has conducted extensive research on various issues within mass incarceration, including reentry,…
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In this episode of our Works of Justice series, we had the pleasure of speaking with Maurice Chammah, a journalist and staff writer at The Marshall Project whose reporting on the criminal justice system has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, and Mother Jones, among others. His first book, Let the Lord Sort …
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In Part II of our Family Through The Walls series, we meet Dunasha Payne through an intimate and moving conversation about parenting behind bars. Dunasha is an alumna of Rehabilitation Through The Arts, which provides extensive arts access behind the walls of six New York State correctional facilities. There, she proved herself a talented writer, a…
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Founder and CEO of WE GOT US NOW, a nonprofit advocacy organization that amplifies the stories of and challenges faced by children and young adults with incarcerated parents, Ebony Underwood is a leader in the fight to expand awareness of and rights for the millions who have experienced parental incarceration.In this podcast episode, Underwood spea…
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In this mini-Works of Justice episode, we spoke with celebrated poet Kaveh Akbar, who will be performing Terry Hedin's poem "El Reno" in our "Break Out" Event on November 17th. Terry's piece won Third Place this year in PEN America's Prison Writing Contest. Kaveh spoke honestly and poetically about the privilege and responsibility of holding anothe…
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To learn about how local officials within the criminal justice system can be actors—if unlikely ones—in expanding the rights of justice-involved individuals, we spoke to Lucy Lang.The former director of John Jay’s Institute for Innovation in Prosecution and a candidate in the race for Manhattan district attorney, Lang has a reputation for being a l…
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Listen to The Lucas Brothers(Netflix/On Drugs, FOX/Lucas Bros Moving Co, 22 Jump Street), Keith and Kenny, two of the freshest, most dynamic faces in comedy and leaders in exposing the insidious nature of our criminal justice system. The brothers peak about their lives and engage in a Q&A with young people from POPS (Pain of the Prison System) the …
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2018 Emerging Voices Fellow Jubi Arriola-Headley talks about the lack of equity in creative writing, the importance of essential truth over fact, and accepting the new virtual norm as it relates to community, claiming connections can be made through a screen. It's all just a matter of intention. *Jubi Arriola-Headley is a blacqueer poet, storytelle…
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Pulled from the vault for your listening enjoyment, it is the 2017 Emerging Voices Final Reading, live from the Skirball Cultural Center. The 2017 Fellows Soleil Davíd, Peter H.Z. Hsu, Kirin Khan, Chinyere Nwodim, and Jessica Shoemaker read their poetry and fiction, with introductions written by their mentors Jade Chang, Amelia Gray, Ashaki M. Jack…
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To learn more about reentry services during the pandemic, we talked to Alejo Rodriguez of Exodus Transitional Community and the Parole Preparation Project. Rodriguez was incarcerated for over 32 years and has turned his personal experiences—namely, being repeatedly denied parole because of a violent conviction—into powerful advocacy.PEN America’s s…
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1999 Emerging Voices Fellow Dr. Stephanie Han talks to us about polyculturalism, protests, and the pandemic; our increased ability to conceptualize a narrative after the internet; and delivers an inspirational rant on why we write that's worthy of a Ted Talk. Listen and then sign up for one of her creative writing classes this summer. Visit stephan…
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Our society is in the middle of a radical awakening. The twin pandemics of COVID-19 and the state-sanctioned killing of Black people have caused millions to rally for justice. “A STRONGER DESIRE TO LIVE” draws together a roster of powerful artists standing in to voice a tremendous series of prose, poetry, and drama works penned by award-winning inc…
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Among the many notes of wisdom in this conversation with our Prison and Justice Writing Program Manager, Robbie Pollock, Gloria J. Browne-Marshall contextualizes the history of systematic murder of Black Americans at the hands of the law, and a offers a holistic and inciting call to action around reconciling white privilege and being in right allys…
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For authors whose books were slated to publish during a pandemic, like Tessie Castillo’s, that usual release process has been turned on its head. Castillo is a journalist and the author of Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row, published by Black Rose on March 12, 2020, and co-authored by Michael J. Braxton, Lyle May, Terry Robinson and George Wil…
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This incredibly moving performance was the launch of the 2020 issue of CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art and Action. Entitled “REVERB: VOICES AGAINST MASS INCARCERATION,” and inspired by Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, this issue honors the many voices that echo across time and space in protest of mass incarceration.Magazine link: https://curamag.comV…
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To understand the particular challenges faced by incarcerated women during COVID 19—of whom nearly 80% are mothers, to name one glaring example—and to learn about how COVID-19 is amplifying them, we called Keri Blakinger, the first formerly incarcerated staff writer at The Marshall Project.Keri also reports for the Houston Chronicle and co-hosts th…
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Normally, this is the time for the EV Spring Reading. Friends, loved ones, and the local literary community all gather to meet the fellows and to hear them perform. With the shelter in place orders in effect, we aren't able to host the 2020 EVs in public, so they're reading on the podcast instead! In addition, Amanda talks to Megan, Damien, Claire,…
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To learn more about the particular challenges COVID-19 poses for incarcerated youth, PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program Intern, Liz Fiore called up one of the strongest leading advocates in the juvenile justice field, Vincent Schiraldi. With a national reputation as a fearless reformer, Vincent is currently a senior research scientist…
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Listen to Caits Meissner, PEN America Prison and Justice Writing’s program director, in conversation with Writing For Justice Fellow Justin Rovillos Monson for the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site’s Searchlight Series hosted by Sean Kelley.Audio courtesy of Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Sitehttps://www.facebook.com/Eastern-State-Penit…
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1999 Emerging Voices Fellow Shonda Buchanan talks about nurturing communities that reach beyond the page, writing your life into existence, and the importance of language. Listen to hear her explain to fellowship manager Amanda Fletcher why you should never call her a performer. **Shonda Buchanan is an award-winning poet, author, journalist and edu…
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Inside the information deserts of prison and jails, incarcerated people are often unable to locate facts-based news about both the outside world, and the changing conditions of their own lives.On this episode, Lawrence Bartley, Director of News Inside—a free publication that curates news related directly to incarcerated lives from The Marshall Proj…
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Seeking clarity for our own small contribution to pandemic-era reporting, on Monday, April 5, 2020, PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program intern Kate Cammell asked Josie Duffy Rice, President of The Appeal, and Co-Host of the Justice In America podcast, for some advice. What is journalism’s role in this historical moment? What criminal j…
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On Friday March 27, 2020, PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program intern Kate Cammell had a chance to speak with Fair and Just Prosecution’s Executive Director Miriam Krimsky and Research and Policy Associate Scarlet Neath about their recent statement—along with thirty other elected prosecutors—addressing the rights and needs of those in c…
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In celebration of the launch of her memoir–HOME IS A STRANGER–in the middle of a pandemic, 2009 EV Parnaz Foroutan talks about shaking the self in times of strife, the reckoning required to digest suffering, and falling in love with the people we used to be. **Parnaz Foroutan is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Girl from the Garden (Ecc…
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2003 Emerging Voices Fellow, poet, teacher, and community activist Rocío Carlos teaches us how to make a zine, and talks about taking attendance, getting caught in the ditch, and growing up haunted in Los Angeles.**Rocío Carlos attends from the land of the chaparral. Born and raised in Los Ángeles, she is widely acknowledged to have zero short term…
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Authoring Advocacy: Bearing Witness in an Era of Mass IncarcerationWhat is the responsibility of writers to confront our era of mass incarceration, and how do we bear witness without assuming voyeuristic or exploitative perspectives? Featuring 2018 PEN America Writing For Justice Fellows Justin Rovillos Monson and Reginald Dwayne Betts, and Asian A…
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The 2019 Emerging Voices Fellows meet for a last meal and talk to Fellowship Manager Amanda Fletcher about their experiences in EV, commenting on the impact their mentors, master classes, and professional editing sessions had on their writing. Featuring Dare Williams, Judy Choi, Anthony Hoang, T.K. Lê, and Fajer Alexander Khansa. With a cameo from …
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Celebrating the release of the 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology, PEN America and The Poetry Project present an evening of exceptional work from currently incarcerated writers, staged by a series of dynamic authors, actors and activists.Part 2 of 2Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Eric Berryman read The Letters of Madeleine L’Engle and Ahm…
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Celebrating the release of the 2019 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology, PEN America and The Poetry Project present an evening of exceptional work from currently incarcerated writers, staged by a series of dynamic authors, actors and activists.Part 1 of 2Cortney Lamar Charleston reads Self Portrait As State Property by P.M. Dunne (00:20)Mar…
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Presenting an ALL NEW selection from awardees of the 2019 PEN America/Edward Bunker Prize in FictionThe September 18, 2019 BREAKOUT event (https://pen.org/event/break-out-brooklyn-book-festival-19/) will feature the 2019 PEN Prison Writing Awards winners and will launch our second annual print anthology, 'As I Hear the Rain.'Listen to incredible re…
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This September, in commemoration of the Attica Riots, PEN America and The Poetry Project launch BREAK OUT: a movement to (re)integrate incarcerated writers into literary community. Throughout the month, over two dozen local reading series in New York City—and across the country—will feature the work of a currently incarcerated writer. This first-of…
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Juan Felipe Herrera made history when he became the first Mexican-American to serve as a United States Poet Laureate. Herrera will be interviewed by Puerto Rican poet, activist, and actress Caridad de la Luz, known as La Bruja. Both poets will read from their works, discuss how young writers can speak poetry to power, and examine Herrera’s latest b…
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Soledad Castillo and Gabriel Méndez left Honduras and crossed the southern border into the United States as young teenagers. It wasn’t to “game the system” or commit any crime; it was to escape the dangers of gang violence and the horrors of sexual abuse. Their stories, part of a literature of testimony, are captured and shared by Voice of Witness,…
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Listen up. As rhetoric flies, politics grind, and heat increases along the United States’ southern border, the experiences of those who have risked their lives to cross from Mexico into the United States—and the voices of their families—must be heard. While the federal government grows ever more hostile and dismissive toward narratives of immigrati…
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Strong, bold female protagonists can often inspire readers to overcome restrictions that threaten to interrupt their own lives. Pulitzer-winning author Jennifer Egan, Turkish-British novelist Elif Shafak, and Portuguese writer Inês Pedrosa have created unforgettable female characters including a pioneering U.S. Navy diver, an adventurous trio of Mu…
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In poetry and prose, the work of Jorge Luis Borges is mysterious and accessible, epic and intimate. This world-shaping Argentinian writer fused the compulsively readable elements of pulp material with fascinating intellectual subject matter. Borges explored a wide variety of topics across stories, poetry, novels, and essays that have garnered inter…
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For many men, their relationship with their father will be the most challenging that they ever experience–and the most difficult to talk about. Colm Tóibín’s most recent book, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, is about the fathers of Irish literary greats Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats. Édouard Louis’s Who Killed My Father is a searing indictme…
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Placing the personal story in the public sphere is one of the most powerful and transformative of acts, liberating the storyteller and also giving the listener a deeper and more empathetic understanding. When the stories are life altering, even life threatening, the effect is even more profound: witnessing genocide or war crimes, fleeing your homel…
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Against a backdrop of war, religious strife, and post-colonial conflict, Pakistani writers are producing some of the most dramatically potent, humorous, and imaginative stories published today. Mohammed Hanif, who proved himself a master of satire with A Case of Exploding Mangoes, returns this year with Red Birds, laying bare the absurdities wrough…
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Edward Heward Bunker (December 31, 1933 – July 19, 2005) was an American author of crime fiction, a screenwriter, and an actor. Bunker wrote numerous books— some of which have been adapted into major motion pictures featuring prominent actors such as Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight— and was a screenwriter on Straight Time (1978), Runaway Train (1985)…
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Many Americans agree that our criminal justice system needs thorough reform—but how can public sentiment lead to effective systemic changes? Moderated byAndrea J Ritchie (2:12)Author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color with the 2018-2019 Writing for Justice FellowsPriscilla Ocen (9:03)Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot (…
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What risks do incarcerated writers face when their words travel beyond prison walls? And how do audiences of their work read, honor, and bear witness without assuming voyeuristic or exploitative perspectives? The PEN America Prison Writing Program commissioned currently incarcerated writers to reflect on these and other tensions between the realm o…
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As part of Rare Bird Books, Julia Callahan has co-hosted a small press Author Evening with Chris Heiser from Unnamed Press for years. Now, from the floor of her apartment in the Los Feliz neighborhood of LA, she waxes philosophical on roller derby as a stress reliever, how to be an active member of your literary community, and living inside the sto…
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This evening of conversations with writers, editors and publishers confronts the challenges and ethics of publishing incarcerated writers, and reimagining the boundaries of what is possible.In addressing the impact of mass incarceration, there is an increasing need to center the voices of those directly impacted—not only as experts, but as integrat…
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Hosted by Mariame Kaba, activist, organizer, and founder of Project NIA (which advocates the end of youth incarceration), editors and curators of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom (Haymarket Press) will read and discuss the narratives of people surviving the effects of long-term incarceration.Read our interview with art…
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Open Doors Reality Poets launches their anthology Wheeling & Healing, edited by the Reality Poets. The Reality Poets invited residents of their long-term care facility, neighbors on Roosevelt Island, mentors, and friends to contribute poems toward a message of realness, resilience, and healing.OPEN DOORS is an arts and justice initiative, on Roosev…
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Award-winning journalist Kyle Swenson joins us to discuss Good Kids, Bad City, his first book about the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them. In an immersive exploration of race in America, Swenson investigat…
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