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On translating Dagmara Kraus
Dagmara Kraus’s debut poetry collection, kummerang, is an exuberant investigation of a linguistically charged mind. The poems in kummerangrefuse to decide whether they will speak through sense or music,… More
Excerpts from Qiu Miaojin’s Notes of a Crocodile
She had sought me out. I knew it would happen. Even if I had switched to a different section, she would have sought me out all the same. She,… More
On translating Qiu Miaojin
What makes Kerouac or Salinger timeless is not necessarily literary, but perhaps didactic: the fact that there is wisdom to be found at the fountain of youth, no matter… More
A Few Ideas from My Black Box
A Few Ideas from My Black BoxOrange crush. No, blue field.Wait, green ember. Maybe red beam.In-any-case yellow. Possibly,Netherworld gray. Quivering purple?Skylark white. Taking out the trashbeneath a shuddering sadness… More
Last of the Late Great Gorilla-Suit Actors
All the blondes / are thrown over his shoulders, the blondes he never even / liked, the bunches of blondes he mistook for bananas. More
My Banned Books
Before the decade ended, I was asked to return a payment of $50.00 to an educational publisher. My poem about dinosaurs had to be removed from a language arts… More
One Pussy Riot Band Member Released; Other Two to Serve Remainder of Sentences
PEN International welcomes today’s news that one of the three Pussy Riot band members accused of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, Ekaterina Samusevich, has been freed on a suspended… More
PEN Remembers Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien
PEN remembers poet Nguyen Chi Thien, who spent nearly three decades in prison in Vietnam and died on October 2, 2012. More
PEN Statement on Threats Against Researcher Tanya Lokshina in Moscow
PEN International and PEN American Center strongly condemn the threats made against Tanya Lokshina, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Moscow office, calling them a revolting and cowardly attempt… More
PEN Mourns Loss of Distinguished Translator, Philanthropist Michael Henry Heim
PEN American Center announced today that the recently deceased Michael Henry Heim, 69, one of the world’s greatest translators and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA, was… More
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