Pen America

17: Pen Voices Pen America

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.