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Three Poems from Star Dust
You are the ruin whose arm encircles the young woman / at the posthumous bar, before your death. More
Two Poems from Desire
We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed. More
Ellen West
—Is it bitter? Does her soul / tell her / that she was an idiot ever to think / anything / material wholly could satisfy? More
Hundreds Rally in New York for Release of Ilham Tohti
"Tohti is exactly the kind of influential moderate the Chinese government should have courted in their professed efforts to build social harmony,” said Dominic Moran, Director of Free Expression… More
PEN American Center Names Shawn Vestal Winner of Prestigious Bingham Prize
PEN American Center conferred the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for Debut Fiction on Shawn Vestal for 'Godforsaken Idaho.' More
MONDAY: Candlelight Vigil for Ilham Tohti
On Monday night, PEN American Center will host a public candlelight vigil for Ilham Tohti, the Uyghur writer and scholar who was sentenced to life in prison on September… More
Chill Blue Paint Box: Rereading Sons and Lovers
In 1975, Sons and Lovers meant to me the Gethsemane of emotional ambivalence—erotic yet ascetic, the stakes high as scripture, translated into genital dialect. More
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A lifetime of alcoholism had been responsible for his stroke, so he had only himself to blame. This seemed to be an empowering thought for him, and he repeated… More
What Happens To Your Mother Is Not Your Concern!
The cruelties and abuses taking place today in Syria defy all comprehension. Perhaps not even literature, or the language itself, is sufficient to be able to depict what is… More
Tortured Academic and Doctor in Worsening Health in Bahrain
Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace, imprisoned for treating protesters in a hospital in 2011, requires urgent medical care. More
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