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Fighting Ideological Exclusion in South Africa
South African PEN is protesting the South African government’s failure to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama to attend fellow Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu’s private 80th… More
Fighting Ideological Exclusion in South Africa
South African PEN is protesting the South African government’s failure to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama to attend fellow Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu’s private 80th birthday… More
David Bellos to Speak at McNally Jackson
David Bellos, the eminent translation scholar, brilliant translator of Georges Perec, and runner-up for this year’s PEN Translation Prize will be speaking this Thursday, October 13 at McNally Jackson… More
My Face, My Attention, My Soul: A Conversation with Kevin Simmonds
I am now a poet. It’s as simple as that, really. The inclination to do it is in me. My face, my attention, my soul—all of those things are… More
Walk and Talk
Poet Jon Cotner, co-author with Andy Fitch of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), has a new walking/talking/picture-taking project up over at the BMW Guggenheim Lab Blog. More
U.S. State Department to Issue Visa to Kurdish Human Rights Advocate
Our public debates have been sharpened and enriched by granting the visas, and we are gratified that Kerim Yildiz, too, will soon be back in the United States. More
U.S. State Department to Issue Visa to Kurdish Human Rights Advocate
[caption id="attachment_603" align="alignnone" width="300" caption=" "][/caption] We have just learned that Kerim Yildiz, executive director of the London-based Kurdish Human Rights Projects and a leading speaker and advisor on Kurdish rights issues,… More
PEN Appeal: Abduljalil Al-Singace and Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja
September 30, 2011 King of Bahrain His Majesty Sheikh Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa Office of His Majesty the King P.O.Box 555 Rifa’a Palace Kingdom of Bahrain. Fax: +973 176 64 587 Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs Sheikh… More
PEN Appeal: Tran Duc Thach and Nguyen Van Tinh
October 3, 2011 His Excellency Nguyên Minh Triêt President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hanoi Socialist Republic of Vietnam Minister of Public Security Lt Gen Tran Dai Quang Ministry of Public… More
Selected Poems
what is want what is need / what’s sweat without the breeze / my stepfather would say / in his wide brimmed hat staring / at how… More
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