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Two Poems from Red Doc>
He hadn’t known his / grandmother long or well. / She smelled like Noxzema. / Didn’t like doctors. Believed in herbs and the / Bible. When the apostles /… More
PEN Haiti’s Beautiful New House of Literature
Our Freedom Write fellow on his visit to PEN Haiti's extraordinary new Maison Georges Anglade as part of an intercultural exchange supported by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation. The… More
PEN’s New Officers and Trustees Announced
PEN American Center the newly-elected and reelected officer trustees of the Board, including John Troubh, Executive Vice President, and Jeri Laber, Vice President. Other newly-elected or reelected trustees of… More
Take Immediate Action for Poet Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami
There is one last hope of having poet Mohammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami's conviction reversed. Take action for him now. More
Three Questions with C.D. Wright
Clearly authoritarian states are afraid of even small, solo voices. Less mucked-up states with grandiose images of themselves are afraid of truth-speakers as well. But they can just paper… More
Poet’s Life Sentence Reduced
PEN International continues to protest the detention of poet Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, whose life sentence for a critical poem was reduced to 15 years on February 25, 2013. More
Let’s Crowdsource Our Own Hollywood Movie About Torture
With controversy still swirling around the film Zero Dark Thirty and its misleading suggestion that torture put the CIA on the trail of Osama bin Laden, it's time to… More
Obsurity & Shelter
a one-story clapboard with stuff / crammed into drawers / waiting for the adults to go out / never enough closets / so he could roll a smoke… More
PEN Decries Supreme Court Surveillance Decision
PEN American Center today denounced a Supreme Court ruling that scuttles a challenge by PEN and other human rights groups to the government’s secret telephone and Internet surveillance program,… More
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