In collaboration with the NYC Literary Action Coalition, PEN America will host a series of Instagram Lives featuring writers, activists, lawyers, and academics in conversation about the increased threats to protest rights. These events are free to the public. Learn more here and follow us on Instagram @penamerica to stay updated.
This Instagram Live conversation will focus on historic and contemporary Indigenous activism. The conversation will feature Toni Jensen and Thomas Lopez about how protest and community efforts have contributed to the fight for Indigenous rights.
How can writers and the literary arts serve to protect protest rights? Why should protest matter to writers? How can writers leverage the power of the written and spoken word to educate communities about the importance of protest rights? Join us for a live conversation featuring Alejandro Heredia and Mahogany L. Browne.
Coming Soon: The 2021 World Voices Festival (May 18-22)
If you missed the 2021 Literary Awards Ceremony last week, you can stream the whole ceremony on our website and on YouTube. You can also see a complete list of the winners along with descriptions of each book from our esteemed panel of judges.
The Magic City Poetry Festival, PEN America Birmingham, and the Hoover Public Library are proud to host eco-poet Salaam Green as she hosts a free virtual workshop on writing to heal. Participants will explore healing through poetry and will have the opportunity to create poetry. Register here ››
Join us for this virtual conversation presented in partnership with Belt Magazine, featuring four writers as they share their work and discuss their approaches to regional storytelling. Audience members will hear from Pat Nabong, Ava Tomasula y Garcia, Anna Clark, and Brittany King about writing in the Rust Belt. Then, attendees will be given a writing prompt to workshop at home. This conversation will be hosted by Martha Bayne. Register here ››
The PEN Ten with Raymond Antrobus: “Writing poetry at first was a therapeutic practice, as was my journaling and ‘travel writing,’ but that was all private. When my poetry became public, I felt it had to serve other functions if I expected to have readers. I had to align myself with schools of thought, with history and language.”
The PEN Ten with Kayleb Rae Candrilli: “In regard to the tradition of form itself, I think I am a small part of the tradition being remade and reclaimed by historically marginalized folks. Our bodies are breaking rules by existing, so why wouldn’t our art?”
Online Abuse and the Threat it Poses to Free Speech with Viktorya Vilk: “The business model that underpins social media is basically predicated on maximizing user engagement and attention, and that prioritizes virality, motion, and immediacy, but it doesn’t prioritize safety... That’s why we’ve gotten where we are today, but in terms of what we can do to actually get the platforms to make changes, I am actually cautiously optimistic.”
On Freedom within Community with Kaitlyn Greenidge: "I think it's really easy to define freedom in terms of stark individualism, and oftentimes in the United States, we believe those things are one in the same. But I wanted to break those ideas apart, and explore what freedom actually looks like when you are in deep community and love and care with other people.”
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