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PEN Goes to the UN
For the past three weeks, I’ve been trudging up to the UN to engage with the Human Rights Committee. The main building of the Secretariat remains under construction so… More
PEN Goes to the UN
[caption id="attachment_10630" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Members of the UN Human Rights Committee"][/caption] For the past three weeks, I've been trudging up to the UN to engage with the Human Rights Committee.… More
Chapbooks for Everyone!
Last week was New York’s 2012 Poetry Chapbook Festival. New Yorkers could buy chapbooks straight from the people who make them, see a ton of great poets read their… More
Nowy Targ, Autumn 2011
The map in my head contained only a street and a cemetery. I couldn’t remember how I’d found them the first time, not long after the fall of the… More
The Ida Pingala
I told you, in the decades to come, we’d hold our hands open to feel the moist sweat of the turn-coat landscape as it spoils the way we hear… More
PEN Appeal: Ahmet ??k and Nedim ?ener
March 27, 2012 Minister of Justice Mr. Sadullah Ergin 06669 Kizilay Ankara Turkey Fax: 00 90 312 419 3370 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,000 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers… More
PEN Appeal: Bü?ra Ersanl?; and Rag?p Zarakolu
March 27, 2012 Minister of Justice Mr. Sadullah Ergin 06669 Kizilay Ankara Turkey Fax: 00 90 312 419 3370 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,000 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers… More
Professor Büşra Ersanlı and Ragıp Zarakolu formally indicted
Istanbul’s chief prosecutor has ordered the indictment of Büşra Ersanlı and Ragip Zarakolu this week. More
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