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Octaves Later
Beyond / the nerve tonic / I came up rather quickly / now it’s a way of saying something / as if another century had passed More
John Krygier/Denis Wood: Ce N?est Pas Le Monde
Below is new graphic analysis by John Krygier and Denis Wood. It appears in PEN America 15: Maps. Ce N’est Pas Le Monde 120456 More
Peter Godwin Elected as President of PEN American Center
PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced today at its Annual Members Meeting the election of Peter Godwin as its… More
The 1920s: PEN’s Founding and Early Years
Throughout the year, we’ll be celebrating PEN’s 90th anniversary by looking at the key events, cases, and characters from the organization’s history. As part of our online retrospective, we’ll… More
2012 PEN American Center Election Results
PEN American Center announced at the Annual Members Meeting the election of Peter Godwin as the president. Godwin succeeds Kwame Anthony Appiah, who served as president for the last… More
HotINK Festival
While many of the world’s greatest plays are only known to American audiences through translation (those by Sophocles, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Ionesco, to name but a very few),… More
Unnatural Disasters
A reader’s mind is terraced by unwreckable geographies. No terrorist can bomb Kafka’s castle and its surrounding stone wend, no tornado can churn to dust O’Connor’s hot small towns.… More
PEN Appeal: Ales Bialiatski
March 2, 2012 President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr G. Lukashenko Karl Marx Str. 38 220016 g. Minsk Belarus Fax: + 375 172 26 06 10 or +375 172 22 38 72 Your Excellency, On behalf… More
Writer Sent to Labor Camp
Human rights activist, writer, and Belarus PEN member Ales Bialiatski’s four-and-a-half-year sentence has been upheld on January 24, 2012. More
Mahmoud Darwish: What is Lost
In exile you choose a space to tame habit, a private space for your journal. So you write: Place is not the trap. We can say: Here we have… More