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FOR TEACHERS IN NYC:Writers In the Schools aims to inspire students to read more regularly and more critically, and to encourage them to explore writers from various cultures and… More
Tools for Writers
PEN offers programs to assist writers, including:Grants & Awards Available to American WritersTranslation DirectoryWriters Fund More
A Report on PEN’s SCOTUS Hearing
On a day when the rest of Washington was shuttered and hunkered down for Hurricane Sandy, the Supreme Court stuck it out and heard arguments over whether PEN and… More
PEN Appears Before Supreme Court
PEN and other human rights organizations challenge the U.S. government's secret NSA surveillance program. More
Mausoleum of Lovers
One by one I began to rip off in chips the made-up skin of the little mannequin, and this gives him leprosy by leaving the exposed white wax on… More
On Translating Hervé Guibert
Le mausolée des amants makes every essential demand upon me; the sensual exigencies, and cruel untempered forms of address in this epistolary work...mark the rest of us as gilt… More
On Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”
I saw, for the first time, what it really means to be a poet—to have the habit of mind where the universe reveals itself through linguistic forms the way,… More
On Judy Blume’s Forever
I checked out Forever from my local library, where it sat serenely in Teen Fiction for all the world to see. I read it on a gray morning, and… More
On Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago
Even under Stalin’s successor Khrushchev there was still no realistic hope of publishing the entire book. So in 1957 Pasternak finally allowed a manuscript (including the poems, published as… More
On Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
I live in a world that resounds with stories of young girls being raped, experiencing first love, where court systems rule against poor blacks and further commit violence against… More
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