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PEN Urges Sony to Reconsider Decision to Pull ‘The Interview’
PEN American Center expresses its profound regret at Sony Pictures’ statement that The Interview will not be released on any platform as a result of threats made by unidentified… More
from Ideal Machine
dear son don’t flinch / when he comes for you // singing through my brain my face // lure you wait / shadows flat under the operating lights //… More
Your Students … Or Your Customers?
“In other words, know your customer,” she says. Customer. This word is the last straw. I can't keep my hand down any longer. As if it’s not enough that… More
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The PEN Ten with Rowan Ricardo Phillips
"I don't find the skill to be in writing or even in reading. The real skill is being a human being, weighing that, contemplating its arcs and depths, and… More
Turkey: Erdoğan Ensnares Journalists in Political Battle
PEN American Center condemns the arrests of Turkish journalists in police raids today that apparently targeted media and police officials accused of being aligned with political opponents of President… More
Writers Call on Attorney General to Drop Risen Subpoena
Efforts to compel journalist James Risen to reveal a confidential source(s) could cement the Obama Administration’s legacy as one of the most hostile to press freedom in U.S. history,… More
Of Sea, Sponge, Ant, and Prayer: On Translating María Baranda
"For Baranda, narration is not of social relations but of the essential. Her cry is resoundingly of sea, sponge, ant, and prayer, as related in rapture. It’s for her… More
Nightmare Running on a Meadow of Absolute Light
One of the leading Mexican poets of the generation born in the 1960s and a powerful presence in all of Latin American poetry, Baranda is best known for her… More
Writers in the Schools: November
The MCSM RamPage, which Carol Cooper helped to edit, is nominated for a Newsie. In other parts of NYC, Writers in the Schools volunteers work with students from around… More
Four Poems by Mark McMorris
What more is there to say about tambourines / that mimic the bells on a leather saddle, strapped / to a horse you rode across the Chinese tundra /… More
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