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Sixty-five years ago today, The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established. In recognition of this important resource for refugees, the #PENpodcast features Deborah Ellis reading two stories: about an Iranian refugee living in Jordan, and about a child in the slums of Lusaka, Zambia.
On December 10th, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed. In celebration of the signing of this monumental document, today's #PENpodcast features Jane Mayer, Anouar Benmalek, Elisa Massimino, Scott Horton, and Dahlia Lithwick in a discussion on the political, ethical, and rhetorical significance of torture.
Seventy-four years ago today, Pearl Harbor was bombed, and December 7 was dubbed a "day that will live in infamy." In today's PENpodcast, Phil Klay, Nadifa Mohamed, and other writers read excerpts from their fiction and discuss their own attempts at portraying the horrors of war through literature.
Acclaimed poet Natalie Diaz grapples with betraying family in her new book of poetry "When My Brother Was an Aztec" and moves us with her ongoing program to revitalize the Mojave language. Listen for
"I have no idea what an apple looks like, and neither do any of you." In today's #PENpoetry, Native American poet and language activist Natlie Diaz talks about the Mojave language, her poetry, and her own subjective philosophy in her installment of PEN's DIY series.
A year ago this week, widescale protests erupted in Mexico in response to the Iguala mass kidnapping of 43 students. In today's PEN podcast, we feature Carlos Monsiváis, one of Mexico's foremost literary critics and political activists of the 20th century, reading from Mexican Postcards at the event The Global City, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival.
"I learned a lot actually being in Iran because there were so many things that were forbidden we had a thirst to know, we had this thirst to try." Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-born French graphic novelist and author of Persepolis, sat down to speak with Françoise Mouly and MoMA’s Sally Berger about her strategies for storytelling in film at a PEN event in 2012. Celebrate Satrapi's birthday a week early with today's #PENpodcast and hear how she started making comics and films, and how she feels about it all.
Listen to last week's panel discussion on equity & diversity in publishing with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo, Willie Perdomo (author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon), Saeed Jones (author of Prelude to Bruise & Buzzfeed Executive Editor, Culture), and Cate Marvin (VIDA founder & author of Fragment of the Head of a Queen) in today's PEN podcast.
Following up on last week's panel on equity & diversity in publishing with Gregory Pardlo, Saeed Jones, Cate Marvin, and Willie Perdomo, we feature Pardlo reading from his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection "Digest" for today's #PENpodcast.
