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Online Art Auction Benefit for PEN Haiti
PEN has joined forces with online auction site Paddle8 for a unique benefit auction to support PEN Haiti. Artist Sébastien Jean, whose work has been shown at the Venice… More
A Freedom to Write Retrospective: Eskinder Nega
Each week leading up to the PEN Literary Gala and the conferrence of the 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award on May 5, PEN will feature the story… More
Talking to Ourselves
. . . in short, advice isn’t much use, if you disagree with it you don’t listen, and if you already agree you don’t need it, never trust advice,… More
Recommended Events
AN EVENING WITH JOSEF WINKLERTuesday, April 29 at 7:30pmAustrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022Join acclaimed Austrian author Josef Winkler and special guests at this unique… More
Victory for Net Freedom Advocates as Brazil Passes Landmark Internet Legislation
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signed the Marco Civil into law, a welcome victory in the battle for free expression and net freedom in South America's largest economy. More
Across the Rooftops
In my evil dreams I had seen myself approach her with lascivious intent—with a cold thin cruel sexual mouth just parted slight-ways—and I went deep then to find a… More
Voices from Ukraine and Belarus Part II
Biblical tradition heavily also had a strong influence on Ukrainian literature and poetry in particular. In short, there has always been an active exchange going on, even when at… More
Voices from Ukraine and Belarus Part I
Nobody has yet cancelled Joseph Brodsky's formula that a poet shouldn't interfere with politics, unless politics interfers with a poet. In the authoritarian Belarus there are all kinds of… More
Tell Us What #FreeExpressionIs
1. In a tweet to @PENAmerican, finish the sentence"#FreeExpressionIs..." in 100 characters or less.2. Follow PEN on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. #FreeExpressionIs a right that every writer should enjoy. But… More
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