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PEN Appeal: Milton Chacaguasay Flores
July 28, 2009 President Rafael Correa Palacio de Carondelet Garcia Moreno 1043 Entre Chile y Espejo Quito, Ecuador Fax: +593 2 258 0714 Minister Ab. Néstor Arbito Chica Ministro de Justicia y Derechos Humanos Av. Amazonas 4545… More
A Certain Man
His eyeteeth clap like his family / for an encore of southwest earth / wolfed with fever More
PEN Appeal: Martín Javier Miranda Avilés and Ernesto Montañez Valdivia
July 23, 2009 Lic. Felipe De Jesús Calderón Hinojosa Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850, Distrito Federal, México Fax: (+ 52… More
Remembering Frank McCourt
PEN deeply mourns the loss of Frank McCourt—teacher, Pulitzer Prize–winning storyteller, and PEN Member. Mr. McCourt contributed to PEN most generously. He was a frequent literary host at both… More
I Wore Chains to My Father’s Funeral
I lay on my steel bunk in the dark of my prison cell, staring at the ceiling, thinking about the phone conversation I’d had with my mother a few… More
PEN Appeal: Natalia Estemirova
July 16, 2009 H.E. Dmitry Medvedev President of the Russian Federation Kremlin Moscow, Russia Fax: + 7 095 206 5173/ 230 2408 Email: [email protected] Mr. Chaika Yuri Yakovlevich Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Ishaya Dmitrovka, 15a… More
PEN Appeal: Ilham Tohti
July 14, 2009 His Excellency Hu Jintao President of the People’s Republic of China State Council Beijing 100032 P.R. China Nur Bekri Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional People’s Government 2 Zhongshaniu Wulumuqishi 830041 Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu P.R. China … More
Coixí de cascalls
Deep Seine, coursing/ quick under melancholy bridges,/ you bathe the City isle/ where Notre-Dame’s square towers reign,/ a breath of crystal. More
Narcis Comadira: On Evolution/Revolution
Into something rich and strange—William ShakespeareTriumph of LifeSpeak, life, whence do you surge?What powerful urgecan wake your brief corein the most imperceptiblehard residue of stone?From the mineral dust thatstirs,… More