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PEN / Guernica at Lit Crawl NYC – 9/14
In support of the PEN/Guernica Flash Series, the PEN Poetry Series, and Guernica's poetry series, we're teaming up poets, novelists, flash writers, staffers, and editors from both organizations for… More
Six Poems by Lily Mazzarella
All summer, the road was littered / with songbirds, their heads smashed in / I was poisoned by absinthe, and set a field / on fire, and spent the… More
France, story of a childhood
I am a girl. I have two obedient sisters, six brothers, and a father who blames me for being born. More
On Translating Zahia Rahmani
When I first discovered Rahmani’s work in 2009, I was ignorant of the Harki identity—I had never even heard the term. Gripped by the author’s sense of urgency… More
The PEN Ten with Domenica Ruta
I don’t care about fashion. Great minds paired with enormous hearts will always transcend fashion, no problem. The public intellectuals who are to remain vital will have to be… More
The Country of Planks
No one is the homeland, was the / apparent scream of the blind planks / in the dead homeland of the sea // This is how the chilean prisons… More
On Translating Raúl Zurita
Zurita knew from firsthand experience what it was like to be imprisoned under the dictatorship. One of the poems in “The Country of Planks” is named after the… More
All Eyes On Mexico’s Newly-Empowered Special Prosecutor
Will the federal government's new power to prosecute crimes against journalists finally end the impunity? More
Three Poems by Kiki Petrosino
You died in the pith of August. You left us. / In rageful choke, in dust: you left us. // On your coffin lid: Going Home. A bluebird. /… More
Announcing the 2013 PEN Literary Award Winners
PEN America announced today the winners and runners-up of the 2013 PEN Literary Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards program in the country. More
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