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Larger Questions as Twitter Enters the Fray in Battle Against Surveillance
Twitter filed suit today against government surveillance on free speech grounds. But Twitter has some questions to answer of its own in Iran and beyond. More
PEN DIY: Natalie Diaz on How to Sacrifice Your Brother, Even When He is an Aztec
It’s said that losing a language is “like dropping a bomb on the Louvre.” When a language is lost, it’s the people that are betrayed. More
Cat and Mouse, Dog and Ouroboros
For many years China has been a prototype for countries trying to control and censor the Internet, but it seems that censorship in China has reached the end of… More
from On Walking On
He knew that a planet, too, wanders, open, in a field of asters. And watched / the terror vanish, falling with the trees into darkness. You walk the dark… More
In Memory of Cell Number One
PEN Haiti president Jean-Euphèle Milcé reflects on the death of Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. More
PEN Member Arrested for Supporting Hong Kong Protests
As pro-democracy protests enter their third week in Hong Kong, Beijing’s efforts to suppress information on and support for the occupy movement have extended to PEN’s ranks as Independent… More
Rights Advocates in Iran Imprisoned in Clampdown on Social Media
Journalist and blogger Marzieh Rasouli has been imprisoned for two years for collaborating with the BBC. Meanwhile, Ghoncheh Ghavami has been detained without a lawyer for pressing for the… More
Six Poems by Amjad Nasser
I want to go into a coma / Anesthetic / Into the fifth heaven of grass / Where God’s forking foot is washed by the virgins of paradise More
Prominent Jordanian-British Poet Turned Away from New York-Bound Flight
The absence of any grounds for his exclusion raises the troubling possibility that Nasser is being punished and silence on the basis of his opinions and writings. More
Jordanian Poet Denied Entry to U.S.
On September 27, 2014, Jordanian-British Poet Amjad Nasser was denied permission to board a plane bound for New York, where he was to inaugurate the new Gallatin Global Writers… More
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