<div dir="ltr"><div>Charmaine Craig May 2 6:30pm Pen America World Voices Festival LA<table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><table class="m_-1209446082364065861row-content m_-1209446082364065861stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="600" style="border-radius:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);width:600px;margin:0px auto"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="m_-1209446082364065861column m_-1209446082364065861column-1" width="100%" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top"><table class="m_-1209446082364065861image_block m_-1209446082364065861block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="m_-1209446082364065861pad" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:600px"><div align="center" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;max-width:600px"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/106368861/541297235/-1530602838?aff=oddtdtcreator&ms=20250423WVFLA%20closingevent&utm_medium=20250423wvfla%20closingevent&utm_source=eaemail&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRU5BTS9QRU5BTS8xLzExMTEwNSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICIxZWI4NWNiNi02YTIwLWYwMTEtOGIzZC0wMDIyNDgyYTlmYjciLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogImFsbGlzb25oQHVjci5lZHUiDQp9&hmac=97lmMocxXKEssHUfiYhBI6W0YP8WTGwKgnPJFXvFlx8=&emci=f6228cca-fd1e-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=1eb85cb6-6a20-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=2909065" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:currentcolor"><img src="https://prod.cdn.everyaction.com/images/van/PENAM/PENAM/1/111105/images/WVF%2025/Forced%20Journeys%20%281%29.png" width="600" alt="" title="" height="auto" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; border: 0px; width: 600px;"></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><table class="m_-1209446082364065861row-content m_-1209446082364065861stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="600" style="border-radius:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);width:600px;margin:0px auto"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="m_-1209446082364065861column m_-1209446082364065861column-1" width="100%" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top"><table class="m_-1209446082364065861block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="20" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td class="m_-1209446082364065861pad" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:sans-serif"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(82,83,85);line-height:1.5"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;font-size:14px">What does it mean to belong to a place, a nation, a family, one’s own past? To what do we owe our homelands and what happens when we are displaced from them? Novelist<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Charmaine Craig</strong>, whose Burmese mother was both a beauty queen and a revolutionary, illuminates both national and personal trauma in her prize-winning <em style="box-sizing:border-box">Miss Burma</em>; <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Hector Tobar</strong> set his novel <em style="box-sizing:border-box">Tattooed Soldier</em> in Los Angeles before the riots and in his parents’ native Guatemala during the years of military dictatorship. Photojournalist and founder of <em style="box-sizing:border-box">Refugee Eye,</em> <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Lara Aburamadan</strong> recounts the ugliness of war and the endless cycle of Israeli bombardments in her native Gaza, in an effort to humanize Palestinians, bring about social change, and promote peace. In conversation with <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Ipek S. Burnett</strong>, a Turkish-born author and psychologist; these writers discuss in what ways exile gives them freedom to write, create, or advocate— and in what ways the draw of “home" limits that expression. <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/106368862/541297236/-1530602838?aff=oddtdtcreator&ms=20250423WVFLA%20closingevent&utm_medium=20250423wvfla%20closingevent&utm_source=eaemail&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRU5BTS9QRU5BTS8xLzExMTEwNSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRp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<span style="word-break:break-word">Just Added! World Voices Festival Closing Celebration</span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-1209446082364065861row-content m_-1209446082364065861stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#fff;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1209446082364065861column m_-1209446082364065861column-1" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:10px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top"><table class="m_-1209446082364065861block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1209446082364065861pad" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;padding-top:5px"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#525355;line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0;letter-spacing:normal">
In case you missed it, PEN America is thrilled to be bringing the <strong>World Voices Festival</strong> back to Los Angeles next week with four incredible events taking place across Los Angeles. Gather with fellow members of PEN America and engage in dialogues as interesting, timely, and diverse as our city. </p><p style="margin:0;letter-spacing:normal"> </p><p style="margin:0;letter-spacing:normal">
All Los Angeles events are <strong>free </strong>with a ticket required for entry. You can learn more and register today at <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/106368851/541297223/-1574497264?ms=20250423WVFLA%20closingevent&utm_medium=20250423wvfla%20closingevent&utm_source=eaemail&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRU5BTS9QRU5BTS8xLzExMTEwNSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICIxZWI4NWNiNi02YTIwLWYwMTEtOGIzZC0wMDIyNDgyYTlmYjciLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogImFsbGlzb25oQHVjci5lZHUiDQp9&hmac=97lmMocxXKEssHUfiYhBI6W0YP8WTGwKgnPJFXvFlx8=&emci=f6228cca-fd1e-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=1eb85cb6-6a20-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=2909065" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#c569d2" target="_blank">pen.org/festival/</a>.  </p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td><table class="m_-1209446082364065861row-content m_-1209446082364065861stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#ededed;border-radius:0;color:#000;width:600px;margin:0 auto" width="600"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1209446082364065861column m_-1209446082364065861column-1" width="100%" style="font-weight:400;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;vertical-align:top"><table class="m_-1209446082364065861paragraph_block m_-1209446082364065861block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1209446082364065861pad" style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;padding-top:10px"><div style="color:#525355;direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.5;text-align:left"><p style="margin:0;margin-bottom:16px"><strong>JUST ADDED - CLOSING CELEBRATION</strong></p><p style="margin:0">And don’t miss a<strong> special closing celebration at the Magnolia House in Pasadena on May 3rd, 5:00-7:00 PM (cover $10).</strong> Come to relax and enjoy the end of the festivities with the PEN America Los Angeles team and members!</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="m_-1209446082364065861block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1209446082364065861pad" style="padding-bottom:5px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;text-align:center"><div align="center"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/106368853/541297225/-485580610?aff=oddtdtcreator&ms=20250423WVFLA%20closingevent&utm_medium=20250423wvfla%20closingevent&utm_source=eaemail&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRU5BTS9QRU5BTS8xLzExMTEwNSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICIxZWI4NWNiNi02YTIwLWYwMTEtOGIzZC0wMDIyNDgyYTlmYjciLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogImFsbGlzb25oQHVjci5lZHUiDQp9&hmac=97lmMocxXKEssHUfiYhBI6W0YP8WTGwKgnPJFXvFlx8=&emci=f6228cca-fd1e-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=1eb85cb6-6a20-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=2909065" style="color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">
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Free expression, due process, civil liberties—once cornerstones of American democracy—are under growing threat. How do we respond—not with despair, but with strategy? In this urgent conversation <strong>Ben Rhodes</strong>, former Deputy National Security Advisor and author of <em>After the Fall</em> and <em>The World As It Is; </em><strong>Lynn Vavreck</strong>, UCLA political scientist and co-author of <em>The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy; </em>and <strong>Peter Hamby</strong>, journalist, host of Good Luck America, and contributor at Crooked Media; confront the escalating attacks on democratic norms in the U.S. and the global forces that echo them. <span style="word-break:break-word;color:#d6001c"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/106368858/541297230/947264921?aff=oddtdtcreator&ms=20250423WVFLA%20closingevent&utm_medium=20250423wvfla%20closingevent&utm_source=eaemail&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRU5BTS9QRU5BTS8xLzExMTEwNSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICIxZWI4NWNiNi02YTIwLWYwMTEtOGIzZC0wMDIyNDgyYTlmYjciLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogImFsbGlzb25oQHVjci5lZHUiDQp9&hmac=97lmMocxXKEssHUfiYhBI6W0YP8WTGwKgnPJFXvFlx8=&emci=f6228cca-fd1e-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=1eb85cb6-6a20-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=2909065" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#c569d2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get Tickets >></a></span>
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What does it mean to belong to a place, a nation, a family, one’s own past? To what do we owe our homelands and what happens when we are displaced from them? Novelist <strong>Charmaine Craig</strong>, whose Burmese mother was both a beauty queen and a revolutionary, illuminates both national and personal trauma in her prize-winning <em>Miss Burma</em>; <strong>Hector Tobar</strong> set his novel <em>Tattooed Soldier</em> in Los Angeles before the riots and in his parents’ native Guatemala during the years of military dictatorship. Photojournalist and founder of <em>Refugee Eye,</em> <strong>Lara Aburamadan</strong> recounts the ugliness of war and the endless cycle of Israeli bombardments in her native Gaza, in an effort to humanize Palestinians, bring about social change, and promote peace. In conversation with <strong>Ipek S. Burnett</strong>, a Turkish-born author and psychologist; these writers discuss in what ways exile gives them freedom to write, create, or advocate— and in what ways the draw of “home" limits that expression. <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/106368862/541297236/-1530602838?aff=oddtdtcreator&ms=20250423WVFLA%20closingevent&utm_medium=20250423wvfla%20closingevent&utm_source=eaemail&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRU5BTS9QRU5BTS8xLzExMTEwNSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICIxZWI4NWNiNi02YTIwLWYwMTEtOGIzZC0wMDIyNDgyYTlmYjciLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogImFsbGlzb25oQHVjci5lZHUiDQp9&hmac=97lmMocxXKEssHUfiYhBI6W0YP8WTGwKgnPJFXvFlx8=&emci=f6228cca-fd1e-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=1eb85cb6-6a20-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=2909065" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#c569d2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get tickets >></a>
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Three distinguished writers known for their writing about the West discuss and read from work pertaining to recent fires— exploring ecological ruin, adaptation, and resilience. Cultural historian <strong>D.J. Waldie</strong>—best known for <em>Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir</em>— reads from his forthcoming book <em>Elements of Los Angeles: Essays on Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. </em>Poet and artist <strong>Daniela Naomi Molnar</strong>, writes about "ecology, grief, and the illusion of closure," reflecting on her flight from home in 2020 when her Portland house "was a tinderbox surrounded by flames." <strong>Rubén Martínez</strong>, author of <em>Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West, </em>and one of our foremost chroniclers of migration, delves into our state’s extremes. <a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/106368864/541297238/-745720682?ms=20250423WVFLA%20closingevent&utm_medium=20250423wvfla%20closingevent&utm_source=eaemail&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRU5BTS9QRU5BTS8xLzExMTEwNSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICIxZWI4NWNiNi02YTIwLWYwMTEtOGIzZC0wMDIyNDgyYTlmYjciLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogImFsbGlzb25oQHVjci5lZHUiDQp9&hmac=97lmMocxXKEssHUfiYhBI6W0YP8WTGwKgnPJFXvFlx8=&emci=f6228cca-fd1e-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=1eb85cb6-6a20-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=2909065" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#c569d2" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Get tickets >></a>
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<span style="word-break:break-word">Books! Get your books here!</span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="m_-1209446082364065861paragraph_block m_-1209446082364065861block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1209446082364065861pad" style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:15px;padding-top:15px"><div style="color:#525355;direction:ltr;font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.5;text-align:left"><p style="margin:0">What better way to prepare for the festival than to read the books? Don't forget to order your books for the World Voices Festival from Bookshop.org!</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-1209446082364065861pad"><div align="center"><a href="https://click.everyaction.com/k/106368865/541297239/1126043298?ms=20250423WVFLA%20closingevent&utm_medium=20250423wvfla%20closingevent&utm_source=eaemail&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9QRU5BTS9QRU5BTS8xLzExMTEwNSIsDQogICJEaXN0cmlidXRpb25VbmlxdWVJZCI6ICIxZWI4NWNiNi02YTIwLWYwMTEtOGIzZC0wMDIyNDgyYTlmYjciLA0KICAiRW1haWxBZGRyZXNzIjogImFsbGlzb25oQHVjci5lZHUiDQp9&hmac=97lmMocxXKEssHUfiYhBI6W0YP8WTGwKgnPJFXvFlx8=&emci=f6228cca-fd1e-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=1eb85cb6-6a20-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=2909065" style="color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">
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