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Majestic Interlude
The rainy season is a league away traveling / at the speed of an era. The cloud formation / does not dissolve as I remove my eyes / from… More
A “Campaign of Genocide” in Syria
This morning, Christopher Merrill of the International Writing Program in Iowa sent PEN a translation of a letter by Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa imploring the world to help end… More
A “Campaign of Genocide”¥ in Syria
[caption id="attachment_8705" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Photo by syriana2011 via Flickr"][/caption] This morning, Christopher Merrill of the International Writing Program in Iowa sent PEN a translation of a letter by Syrian novelist… More
Opening Up to the Family of Nations: A Conversation with Tom Fleming
The reason I joined PEN is really quite simple. I had been censored. More
PEN Appeal: Li Tie
February 9, 2012 President of the People’s Republic of China His Excellency Hu Jintao State Council Beijing 100032 P.R. China Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of… More
PEN Appeal: Maikel Nabil Sanad
February 9, 2012 Director of Military Judiciary Major-General Ahmed Abd Allah Military Judicial Department Cairo, Egypt Fax: +202 2 402 4468 / +202 2 411 3452 Military General Attorney Major-General Medhat Radwan Military Judicial Department Cairo, Egypt Fax:… More
Leaps and Sounds
The leap-year February is extraordinary also in that it brings us LOADS of great new poetry—and a lot of it free and online! So let’s give it to the… More
Tunisia, One Year Later: A Conversation with Sihem Bensedrine
Just for telling the policeman who arrested you that it was your right to protest, you would pay for it. You would be sent to prison. You would lose… More
Half-Hidden in a Shock of Story: A Conversation with Jan VanStavern
I look at my favorite poems that I’ve read or written and notice they are full of surprises at a deep language level and often about really violent transitions,… More
Journey of the Sentence: A Conversation with Susan Bernofsky
In a way the scene exists to show you that lifestyle; if you translate it into something more neutral, then the scene loses a lot of its function and… More