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2014 PEN Poetry in Translation Award: Four Questions for the Winners
"For me, there’s something about that in-between genre—part diary, part poem, part letter to the world—that felt both fascinating and important." More
To Encounter Ocean Power
I can’t shake the image of young students—the gears of their minds at work—as they watch and take account, assess what it means to pull books from shelves, set… More
In Turkey, PEN to observe Pinar Selek’s hearing
Turkish sociologist Pinar Selek faces her fifth trial in 16 years More
What Captain Underpants Can Tell Us About Net Neutrality
PEN knows how the story about ending the open net goes: they're called banned books. More
The World’s Greatest Fisherman
She couldn’t help notice, when he paid up, that he had a good-sized wad of money in a red rubber band like the kind that holds bananas together in… More
PEN member barred from journalism in Honduras for covering corruption
PEN decries the 16-month ban on practicing journalism imposed on Globo TV news anchor Julio Ernesto Alvarado. More
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In Turkey, writer Erol Özkoray convicted of criminal defamation
The writer, journalist and publisher convicted for his 2013 book about the Gezi Park protests. More
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