Event listing
Calendar of Events
Saturday
May 18
6:00 pm-7:00 pm
Join PEN Members Elliott Holt, Alina Simone, and Leigh Stein for a night of reading and singing during Lit Crawl Brooklyn. It's a pub crawl, with literature...
Thursday
May 16
7:00 pm-7:00 pm
Join PEN Members Jonathan Dee, Jennifer Gilmore, Ben Greenman, Leigh Newman, and Joan Silber for a joint reading and signing at one of the best indy bookstore in NYC, WORD in Greenpoint.
This evening, featuring Jon Stewart, Joel Simon, and Mazia Barahi, will explore the political, social and personal implications of criminalizing the press, the impact of press freedom violations on upcoming elections, and what must be done to counter Iran’s censorship regime.
This year, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Sonia Sotomayor will deliver the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture. The lecture will be Followed by a Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Sunday
May 05
3:00 pm-4:30 pm
Designed to reveal hidden literary and political realities, Haiti In Two Acts plays out in two parts. Act I: An expert delivers remarks about the country. Act II: Local writers respond to questions raised.
Two of Burma’s most esteemed poets, Zeyar Lynn and Khin Aung Aye, will read from their work and discuss the country’s budding literary scene with the editor of Bones Will Crow, the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poetry to be published in the West.