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The Houselights
because each entry in the lexicon / is a live wire whose root is charged by a / holy fire, as / when a canon shot in a play… More
Dream Life of Butterflies
I looked around at all the busted windows, the buckled sheets of corrugated iron nailed up where the doors had once been, and further along where a row of… More
Russian PEN Protests Continuing Threats to Free Expression
To tell the truth and to create meaning are both professional and civic duty for the writing community, writers, and journalists. The word is the only tool for creating… More
Chinese Media Confirms Veteran Journalist Gao Yu Officially Detained
Gao Yu, missing since April 24, 2014, has been confirmed to be detained by Beijing police in a criminal investigation for allegedly "leaking state secrets abroad." More
Postscript: Peter Matthiessen
On April 5, 2014, we learned that the American writer Peter Matthiessen, 86, had died in a hospital near his home in Sagaponack, New York. He had been suffering… More
Publisher Yao Wentian (aka Yiu Mantin) Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
PEN International is shocked by the heavy sentencing of Hong Kong-based publisher Yao Wentian on May 7, 2014. More
A Dispatch from the Monkey Planet
An outside had never existed before! Does that mean where I am now is inside? Another monkey started opening the boxes, and was amazed to find out that you… More
An Apology
In the most recent issue of the PEN America journal, we published an excerpt of the poem “WHEREAS” by Layli Long Soldier under the title, “To Exhaust a Horse.” This was a… More
The PEN Ten with Roxana Robinson
What the writer does is bear witness: we tell the stories of the things that disturb us most, and we try to tell them in the way that will… More
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