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Not the Wedding Poem
It's hard to tell / whether the crash survivable memory units / recovered from the black box chilling / at the bottom of the sea are the tonic /… More
PEN Americas Summit Declaration
Delegates from PEN Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, the U.S. and Wales developed proposals for action which represent the beginnings of a new strategy… More
Cole, Klay, Kolbert, and Rankine Longlisted for 2015 PEN Literary Awards
PEN American Center today announced the longlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards, including titles by writer and photographer Teju Cole, debut novelist Phil Klay, journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, poet… More
Myanmar: Three Convicted for Facebook Image of Buddha in Headphones
Two managers and the owner of a Yangon pub were sentenced to two years in prison under Myanmar’s religion act, which criminalizes insults to religion. More
NYU Professor Critical of Labor Practices Denied Entry to UAE
This forms part of a pattern in recent years of expulsions, visa denials, and cancellations of teaching contracts for international faculty, who lose the ability to work in the… More
Mexico: PEN laments dismissal of journalist Carmen Aristegui
Last year, her report on the First Lady’s purchase of a mansion from a government contractor caused scandal. More
The PEN Ten with Mat Johnson
"The attempt to destroy ideas is almost always futile, so censorship ultimately becomes less about controlling the ideas of the text, and more about performing a public act of… More
Longlists Announced for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards
PEN is thrilled to announced the longlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards, spanning fiction, nonfiction, biography, essays, translation, and more. More
Diversity Within Diversity: 2015 ALA Youth Media Awards “Change the Landscape” of Recognition in Children’s Literature
The flurry of each announcement at the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards in February quickly snowballed into perhaps the most diverse awards list in the history of children’s… More
Guatemala: Two Journalists Killed, One Injured
According to news reports, the shooting was carried out by two assailants on a motorcycle in Mazatenango’s Central Park,. More