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PEN Welcomes Release of Award-Winning Burmese Blogger Nay Phone Latt
PEN American Center is thrilled by the news that blogger Nay Phone Latt, the 2010 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award winner, has been released from prison in Myanmar… 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
Musician Win Maw and Blogger Nay Phone Latt Included in Large-Scale Amnesty
Leading musician Win Maw and prominent blogger Nay Phone Latt are among 651 prisoners to be freed as part of a presidential amnesty announced on January 13, 2012. More
Wide-Reading, Long-Seeing
As the war drums rumble louder, we might want to take a look, as we engage, at some Iranian poets, some of whom write about their country from within… More
Flavor of Words: Brian Selznick and Paul O. Zelinsky in Correspondence
And how do you understand the meaning of “work”? The term has rankled me ever since I was an undergraduate art major, standing in awed incomprehension of my professors’… More
The Emperor of All Maladies
On the morning of May 19, 2004, Carla Reed, a thirty-year-old kindergarten teacher from Ipswich, Massachusetts, a mother of three young children, woke up in bed with a headache. More
PEN Appeal: Chen Wei and Chen Xi
January 9, 2012 President of the People’s Republic of China His Excellency Hu Jintao State Council Beijing 100032 P.R. China Minister of Justice Wu Aiying Buzhang Sifabu 10 Chaoyangmen Nandajie Chaoyangqu Beijingshi 100020 People's Republic of China Your Excellencies, On behalf of the… More
Reporter Shot to Death in Nuevo León
Raúl Régulo Garza Quirino, reporter for the weekly newspaper La Ultima Palabra was gunned down on January 6, 2012, by a gang in Cadereyta, state of Nuevo León, and… More
Swedish Journalists Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
Swedish journalists Johann Persson and Martin Schibbye were found guilty of entering the country illegally and “supporting terrorism,” were each sentenced to 11 years in prison by an Ethiopian… More
PEN Appeal: Raúl Régulo Garza Quirino
January 10, 2012 Lic. Felipe De Jesús Calderón Hinojosa Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850, DISTRITO FEDERAL, México Fax: (+… More