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Occupied by Translation
This has been a heady few weeks of activity for the Translation Working Group down at Occupy Wall Street. In this time, the ranks of our volunteer translators have… More
Far District
Immodest in broad daylight, / a ruddy-bellied woman bathes / at the public stand-pipe More
PEN Appeal: Faranak Farid
October 24, 2011 Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani c/o Public relations Office Number 4, 2 Azizi Street Vali Asr Ave., above Pasteur Street intersection Tehran Islamic Republic of Iran Head of East Azerbaijan Province… More
PEN Appeal: Nasrin Sotoudeh
October 24, 2011 Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei The Office of the Supreme Leader Shoahada Street Qom, Islamic Republic of Iran Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Sadeqh Larijani Howzeh Riyasat-e… More
Interrogate the Slow Jam: A Conversation with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
I grew up in a very small town; my eyes are not great and I did not walk well for a long time, so I spent a lot of… More
PEN Appeal: Urinboy Usmonov
October 18, 2011 President Emomali Rahmon via Tajikistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dushanbe Rudaki 42 734051 Fax: 992 372 210 259 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization… More
Venezuelan PEN Challenges Country’s Human Rights Record at UN
[caption id="attachment_4223" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="Popular Venezuelan newspapers. Photo by Cristobal Alvarado Minic."][/caption] Last Friday in Geneva, it was Venezuela’s turn to be examined by the Universal Periodic Review of the… More
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
We were fifteen and it was the first weekend after school started, and me and Jasmine were sitting side by side on one of Mr. Thompson’s ripped-up green-and-white lawn… More
Selected Poems
Could’ve got lost. Could have said, “I don’t know” / when the waitress asked, “Where you live at?” / You could have lied and said, “New Jersey” / or… More
PEN Appeal: Irfan Sanci, Suha Sertabiboglu, Hasan Basri Çiplak, and Funda Uncu
October 12, 2011 Minister of Justice Mr. Sadullah Ergin 06669 Kizilay Ankara Turkey Fax: 00 90 312 419 3370 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers… More