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China Advocacy: Subversive Poetry, Prison, and Exile
[caption id="attachment_7819" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Yu Jie. Photo by Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] All across the world, we at PEN have noticed a trend against freedom of expression: the number… More
PEN Protests Charges Against Zhu Yufu, Insisting “Poetry Is Not a Crime”
PEN American Center called on Chinese authorities to drop plans to prosecute poet and activist Zhu Yufu for “inciting subversion of state power” for one of his poems, saying… More
Listen to This
I envy jazz people who speak simply of “the music.” Some jazz aficionados also call their art “America’s classical music,” and I propose a trade: they can have “classical,”… More
PEN Protests Charges Against Zhu Yufu, Insisting Ÿ??Poetry Is Not a CrimeŸ?
PEN American Center called on Chinese authorities to drop plans to prosecute poet and activist Zhu Yufu for “inciting subversion of state power” for one of his poems, saying… More
Two More Writers Released in Large-Scale Amnesty
MYANMARPEN International is delighted to learn that two more writers were released on January 13, 2012, as part of a presidential amnesty. Journalist and poet Zaw Thet Htwe and… More
Among the Splendors
As I read more of Adonis’s work over the years, in the original and in translation, I felt repeatedly that only a large of selection of work could give… More
PEN Appeal: Zaw Thet Htwe and U Zeya
January 17, 2012 Senior General Than Shwe Chairman, State Peace and Development Council c/o Ministry of Defense Naypyitaw Union of Myanmar Dear General, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization… More
Smith Henderson: Separatists
A pollarded goat drank from a halved oil drum and watched the car slowly pass by and was still watching through its rectangle pupils when Pete looked in the… More
Certain Postures: A Conversation with Adrian Matejka
Readers of poetry have a different set of needs than readers of fiction or non-fiction. In many ways, music is a conduit to, or maybe a fulfiller of, those… More
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