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PEN warmly welcomes the release of writer and activist Enoh Meyomesse
On 27 April 2015, the award-winning writer and activist Enoh Meyomesse was finally freed from Kondengui Prison in Yaoundé, Cameroon, after almost three and a half years in prison. More
Quelque part dans le monde
Somewhere in the world / There will always be a candle to light / A fire to put out / A flood to stem / A drought to fight… More
A Prayer for Workers
Bless the woman, man, & child / who honor Earth by opening shine / in the soil—the splayed hour More
The Hammer of Justice
O Justice! Bring down your Hammer / Smash the system built on slavery / Let your thunder bring wonder / Let our country be the place it wants to… More
A Prayer for Rockers
Rock music inspires achievement, struggle, action. It thunders in the stadium—We will rock you!—and sends us out on the field cheering, ready to play the Super Bowl. A better… More
The Sacred Family
God created man as something free, a being with a purity of freedom, so-called. And as Lieutenant Garcia liked to say, a fool and his freedom are soon parted. More
Strange Wind of Starlessness
I’m not trying to reach some divine / ear. Imagine. Where once / was mercy trash now crunches / like leaves under stars / if only there were still… More
A Prayer for Clytemnestra
I had been told that you would come back. I woke with the knowledge of that. But among the gods now there is no one who oversees my actions… More
Prayer Before Dying
Let the oceans be still or roar, as they always have. Please let the world go on as it always has, so that my children will know that only… More
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