The 2026 PEN America World Voices Festival is just one week away! Join is in NYC April 29-May 2 for unforgettable conversations with incredible writers—about literature, humanity, democracy, and more. Dozens of events, many free! Details: https://worldvoices.pen.org/ #PENWorldVoices #WorldVoices
NEW YORK PEOPLE!
Do join me in conversation with Aatish Taseer and @profsue123.bsky.social at the @penamerica.bsky.social World Voices Festival for our event “Through Foreign Eyes” on May 1 at 8:00 PM at The Center, NYC.
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Join me at the #worldvoicesfestival with Fanta Diallo @thedennemichele and Eimear McBride for a @PENworldvoices conversation “Past Lives / Present Loves,” on 5/2 @ 12:30 PM
KIMBERLÉ W. CRENSHAW JEMELE HILL BACKTALKER: AN AMERICAN MEMOIR April 30, 2026 7:00 pm PT California African American Museum, Los Angeles PEN AMERICA WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL
A lot of really cool conversations coming up, but I think I’m personally most excited for this one between @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social and @jemelehill.bsky.social worldvoices.pen.org/event/backta...
Join us in NYC on Saturday, May 2, for the tenth annual Indie Lit Fair, co-presented by the PEN World Voices Festival! The fair will take place from noon to 6 PM at Washington Square South and will also feature a special reading. Learn more: www.clmp.org/indie-lit-fa...
Excited for my in-person panel with @penamerica.bsky.social at PT Knitwear on April 20 with amazing editors, agents & authors!
What book festival would be complete without dozens of authors? And those authors have written some marvelous books! Get a head start before joining us at the World Voices Festival and check out some of these great titles https://bookshop.org/lists/world-voices-festival-2026 #PENWorldVoices
PEN America's World Voices Festival returns to NY and LA April 29-May 2!
Find out more about this year's sensational selection of free and paid events at: pen.org/festival #PENWorldVoices #LiteraryFestival
Amy Bowers Cordalis will be speaking at the Pen World Voices Festival on May 1st!
I’m proud to support PEN America's important work protecting free expression. I’ll be moderating a panel on graphic novels for young readers at the World Voices Festival. Find this EXTRAORDINARY lineup in NYC on May 2nd. More info at worldvoices.pen.org
My WSJ fiction column for this weekend is on the brilliant, funny, dauntless Lore Segal--who in her personal life got tired of being defined by her traumatic history, but as a writer was fascinated by the material it gave her (gift link) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Poetose will be at the Indie Lit Fair in NYC on May 2! Come say hello! We will have books, literary animal notebooks, book earrings, zines, & more. 😊
The fair is co-presented by the PEN World Voices Festival & @clmporg.bsky.social
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The PEN America World Voices Festival will bring together more than 140 writers from 40+ countries to New York and Los Angeles April 29-May 2 amid mounting barriers to international exchange and escalating attacks on free expression. More: pen.org/press-releas...
It is live! The events are so good!
Come through!
Madness
“Glory of waterbirds, Glory
of thirst.
Glory of the Latin
of the dead and their grammar
composed entirely of decay.
Glory of the eyes of my father
which, when he died, closed
inside his grave,
and opened even more brightly
inside me.”
From Gbenga Adesina’s “Glory”
poets.org/poem/glory
it’s very difficult for me to reread old pieces of mine, but I am sharing this for the Olympics, for nostalgia, for Asian American women of a certain age, for little Asian girls everywhere
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There's a new Lore Segal collection of short stories coming in March! Ladies Lunch was so funny, and heartbreaking, and such a tender and wise look at aging.
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Lovely piece about Book Bunk, an organisation restoring colonial-era libraries in Nairobi and making them free, accessible spaces for children
We are thrilled to announce that today, the Board of Trustees of PEN America named two proven leaders and champions of free expression and literature, Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, as our co-Chief Executive Officers. pen.org/press-releas...
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Literature in translation invites readers into a global literary conversation. And in the months ahead, many new conversations will be sparked by some highly anticipated releases.
Here are just some of the translated works we're most looking forward to reading in 2026: bookshop.org/lists/books-...
It’s brilliant!
ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
"Bolsonaro ... is unlikely to appreciate the approved reading list. It includes Brazilian works on Indigenous rights, racism, the environment and the violence meted out by the country’s 1964-85 dictatorship – a regime Bolsonaro openly supported."
Brazil, you're doing amazing. This is inspired.
That you can pick up something say an inch thick and be transported to another world between its covers? Incredible. Books are incredible technology.
The Minneapolis non-profit A Book Of My Own is collecting books to be given to families who are afraid to send their children to school because of ICE.
You can buy and donate a book they need through their wishlist;
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