PEN Voices celebrates the work done at PEN American Center in the past
year, promoting literature and defending freedom of expression
nationally and internationally. With events from the World Voices
Festival, selections from Literary Award winners, previews from PEN/Heim
Translation Fund Grant recipients, work from the Prison Writing Program,
and adapted favorites from PEN.org, this issue brings together fiction,
essay, poetry, art, and conversation from all parts of the PEN world.
Featuring work from Earl Lovelace, Jamaica Kincaid, André Aciman, Gina
Apostol, Sherman Alexie, Eileen Myles, Sergio De La Pava, Orhan Pamuk,
Simon Critchley, Liu Xia, and many more. PEN American Center is one of
141 centers of International PEN, the world's oldest human rights
organization and the oldest international literary organization.
International PEN was founded in 1921. PEN American Center, founded a
year later, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and
to foster international literary fellowship.