Category: Interviews
Conversations with poets, novelists, nonfiction writers, and playwrights about their work and craft, as well as their thoughts on creative writing education.
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Because Your Liberation Is Bound Up With Mine
On being a mentor with PEN’s Prison Writing Program.
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A Hunger for Stories
An Interview with Quiara Alegría Hudes
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The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop
A conversation with Felicia Rose Chavez.
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Claiming a Seat at the Table of Belonging
A conversation with poet and educator Sarah M. Sala.
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Are We Teaching In A New World?
Yahdon Israel on Language Barriers, Educational Politics, and Online Teaching
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The Writer as Activist
What is the role of the artist/writer in moments of injustice and social unrest?
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Knowledge that Speaks in Difficult Times
A conversation with Sharon Mesmer.
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The Braver We Become
A conversation with Elizabeth Acevedo.
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Free Verse
An Interview with Dave Johnson
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Conquering the Page
An Interview With PEN America Director Caits Meissner
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Rigorous Play and Necessary Joy
A conversation with poet and teacher Ross Gay.
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KidSpirit
A global community for young writers.
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Knowledge Isn’t Neutral
On radical librarianship.
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A Home at the Nuyorican
A continued conversation with Lois Griffith.
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One Day You Will Be One of the Happier
The Voices and Poetry of Teen Immigrants
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A Home at the Nuyorican
A conversation with Lois Elaine Griffith.
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A Home in the Classroom
Mandy Manning on community, love, and building a refuge in her classroom.
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The Talk
Dr. Joshua Bennett on obsessions, music, and Blackness across time.
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An Interview with Robert Creeley
Originally Published in 2001
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The Talk
Lauren Routt on Home, the Importance of Listening, & Urgency
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The Ball Turned into Poetry
A Conversation with Glenis Redmond
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Music and Memory
A Conversation with Julie Landsman
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The Talk
Roya Marsh on Student Voice, Black Queer Joy, and Getting Out of the Way
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Interview with Kevin Young
From a Place that is Necessary and Almost Unspoken