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Harsh Noise and Everything Else
Beginning this week the PEN Poetry Series is adding Ana Božičević and Amy King to its roster of guest editors. More
Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel: One Year Later
Today marks three years since Liu Xiaobo was detained and began an odyssey into China’s legal system, which ruled him a “criminal” for his writings and sent him to… More
Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel: One Year Later
[caption id="attachment_6814" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Liu Xiaobo’s empty chair. Photo by Sarah Hoffman."][/caption] Today marks three years since Liu Xiaobo was detained and began an odyssey into China’s legal system, which… More
Testimony of Marian Botsford Fraser, PEN International
On December 6, 2011, PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee Chair Marian Botsford Fraser was invited to testify before Congress at a hearing entitled “One Year After the Nobel… More
The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry
HALF GEORGE: Gone? (beat.) O. This bout your Sweet Tea ain’t it? Well, chicks come home to roost. What can I say that I ain’t thought before: my boy… More
Three Poems
I admit, / I’m an unnecessarily handsome / knockabout, nightly drunk to no apparent / effect. But, it’s nice to be worried about. / It’s almost like being cared… More
PEN Appeal: Ahmed Mansoor and Nasser Bin Gheith
December 2, 2011 Vice-President and Prime Minister Shaikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Co-Chair of the Higher National Security Council Office of the Prime Minister POB 2838, Dubai, UAE Fax: +971 4 3531974 Minister of Interior Lt-General Sheikh… More
PEN Appeal: Dzamshid Karimov
December 2, 2011 President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam A. Karimov Rezidentsiya Prezidenta Ul. Uzbekistaniskaia 43 Tashkent Uzbekistan Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Sayora Rashidova 700008 g. Tashkent pl. Mustqkillik, 2 Oliy Majlis Respubliki Uzbekistan Fax: +998 71 139 8555 Your… More
PEN Appeal: Pham Minh Hoang
December 2, 2011 President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam His Excellency Nguyên Minh Triêt Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hanoi Socialist Republic of Vietnam Minister of Public Security Lt Gen Tran Dai Quang Ministry of Public… More