This #NaPoWriMo, support the work of incarcerated writers—such as Elizabeth Hawes and Jason Centrone—by reading and sharing “Verse Among Us: A National Poetry Month Zine," curated and produced by Jess ABolafia of PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Program. Her introduction gives insight into how we engage a community of writers working from prisons across the United States. (fb)

“This is the first college-level library banning we have seen. It reflects the steep escalation of government censorship we are seeing under the Trump administration, which continues its unrelenting efforts to control what Americans can read, learn, and think.” Jennifer Finney Boylan, author and PEN America president (fb)