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from Thirteen Months of Sunrise
I don’t care how they take my body...What can this skinny, tired, and sickly body give them? What flames can it quench? More
Two Poems by Jameson Fitzpatrick
If just one thing about me / I will not change / were different—taller, more man, / more woman, a bottom— / my body could be beautiful, I think,… More
India: murder of journalist is a devastating blow to freedom of expression
This statement originally appeared on PEN International's website at: http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/india-murder-of-journalist-is-a-devastating-blow-to-freedom-of-expression/ The murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh yesterday is a devastating blow to freedom of expression, PEN International said… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Want to receive this digest in your inbox? To subscribe, simply click here and choose DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression from the list. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, announcing… More
The PEN Ten with William Brewer
For me, at the atomic level, the obsession around which all my other obsessions orbit is seeing and making others see… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Want to receive this digest in your inbox? To subscribe, simply click here and choose DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression from the list. Debate over fate of "Dreamers"… More
from There’s a Carnival Today
Janak couldn’t even recognize his mother when he returned home eight months later. Thin, sickly, elderly. What had happened to the girth she used to have? It alarmed him. More
September Featured Case: Kirill Serebrennikov
Kirill Serebrennikov, a prominent Russian theater director, prolific playwright, and champion of the arts was put under house arrest through October 19 on fraud charges that Serebrennikov has denied. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Want to receive this digest in your inbox? To subscribe, simply click here and choose DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression from the list. Hurricane coverage highlights the critical… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
UN human rights chief condemns Trump's attacks on the media during the campaign-style rally in Phoenix, noting that these comments have global repercussions. House net neutrality hearing, originally set… More
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