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Half-Hidden in a Shock of Story: A Conversation with Jan VanStavern
I look at my favorite poems that I’ve read or written and notice they are full of surprises at a deep language level and often about really violent transitions,… More
Tunisia, One Year Later: A Conversation with Sihem Bensedrine
Just for telling the policeman who arrested you that it was your right to protest, you would pay for it. You would be sent to prison. You would lose… More
Journey of the Sentence: A Conversation with Susan Bernofsky
In a way the scene exists to show you that lifestyle; if you translate it into something more neutral, then the scene loses a lot of its function and… More
Fairytale: How Spring Comes to the Land of Snow & Icicles / (Dream Map)
The body burns & smells like fake,/ like ammonia & blood & guts. / Barbie leg arrows, / black & white bust sizes, / swords as houses, & you… More
Paul Auster Responds to Turkish Prime Minister, Speaks for Jailed Writers
Author and PEN American Center Member Paul Auster issued a statement today addressed to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan that highlights the cases of Ragip Zarakolu and the scores… More
Fighting The Sad Scourge of Our Times
John Ralston Saul, Russell Banks, and Elena Poniatowska from PEN American Center, Marian Botsford Fraser from PEN Canada, and many others from PEN International and centers in Europe and Asia are traveling to Mexico… More
Fighting The Sad Scourge of Our Times¥
John Ralston Saul, Russell Banks, and Elena Poniatowska from PEN American Center, Marian Botsford Fraser from PEN Canada, and many others from PEN International and centers in Europe and Asia are traveling to Mexico… More
The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
When my parents walked into my room at the asylum, some motor in my brain spun and sparked a blue arc of electricity between two exiled neurons in my… More
Two Journalists Given 14 Years in Prison; One Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
Ethiopian journalists Reeyot Alemu and Woubshet Taye have been sentenced to 14 years in prison; Elias Kifle, who is currently in exile in the US, was tried in absentia… More
PEN International to Mexican Government: Killings of Journalists Must End
A delegation of PEN International today reiterated its call for “immediate and definitive action” to end the killings of journalists in Mexico. Calling the mounting death toll “an assault… More
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