PEN Members and friends will read the award-winning work from PEN's Prison Writing Program for the program's second annual benefit. The event will feature readings by Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian, John Turturro, Patricia Smith, and others.

As an installment of WNYC's signature series "The NEXT New York Conversation," this event will be broadcast and live-streamed, allowing incarcerated men and women with radio and/or internet access to listen to the event and join our audience.

For more than 30 years, PEN's Prison Writing Program has been dedicated to helping make the harsh realities of American imprisonment part of our social justice dialogue. PEN's Program has also been on the front-lines of prison reform, helping inmates in federal, state, and local penitentiaries cope with life behind bars, gain skills, and have a voice while they are there. "Breakout: Voices from Inside" will help raise much-needed funds to enable our important program to continue its most important mission into the future-helping incarcerated men and women to see themselves in a new way: as writers.

Tickets are $50 to $75, and can be purchased at www.pen.org.