Drexel PEN Society

10/14/2016

10/05/2016

Come out and support Drexel Professor and author
Henry Israeli at his book launch this Friday! He will be discussing his new book God’s Breath Hovering Across the Waters at the Drexel bookstore at 3:00 PM.

06/22/2016

04/25/2016

http://www.5027mac.org/2016/04/25/sandra-simonds/ thanks for the shout out 5027mac!

Drexel PEN Society's Open Mic Night featured Sandra Simonds, author of "Steal it Back." Drexel PEN advocates for freedom of speech for writers.

04/18/2016

We're currently planning our first Global Voices Festival for World Refugee Month! Author of debut novel Ways to Disappear, Idra Novey will be at the event, check out her website!

Website of writer and translator Idra Novey, author of the novel Ways to Disappear and the National Poetry Series winning collection Exit, Civilian.

04/06/2016

The PEN American Center continues its impartial stance despite protests.

Read these articles and comment below:

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/337906/pen-writers-group-rebuffs-calls-to-drop-israel-sponsorship-amid-outcry/

http://www.usacbi.org/2016/04/over-100-writers-call-on-pen-american-center-to-reject-israeli-government-sponsorship/

The literary writers’ group PEN American Center is refusing to drop Israeli government sponsorship from its annual festival, despite calls by dozens of members to do so.

03/17/2016

What is utopia? How does it exist in writing?

Check out this spring term course at the intersection of philosophy and science fiction to learn more.

What is utopia? Interested in taking a philosophy elective in the spring term? check out this class!

03/09/2016

Walters and Dr. Hanna-Attisha were two essential voices in exposing the lead poisoning of Flint’s water supply, calling out the grave damage to public health in a majority black community where about 40 percent of the population lives in poverty.

02/26/2016

Thanks to Baz Dreisinger for coming to Drexel today for a very informative and thought provoking talk on her new book: Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World!