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Five Years On, Writers Continue to Call for Justice for Anna Politkovskaya
On the five-year anniversary of the murder of acclaimed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, PEN American Center once again appealed to the Russian government for justice, citing an ongoing “climate… More
PEN Commends 2011 Nobel Literature Laureate Tomas Tranströmer
PEN American Center congratulates Tomas Tranströmer, an active member of Swedish PEN, on his selection to receive the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. More
Walk and Talk
Poet Jon Cotner, co-author with Andy Fitch of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), has a new walking/talking/picture-taking project up over at the BMW Guggenheim Lab Blog. More
U.S. State Department to Issue Visa to Kurdish Human Rights Advocate
Our public debates have been sharpened and enriched by granting the visas, and we are gratified that Kerim Yildiz, too, will soon be back in the United States. More
U.S. State Department to Issue Visa to Kurdish Human Rights Advocate
[caption id="attachment_603" align="alignnone" width="300" caption=" "][/caption] We have just learned that Kerim Yildiz, executive director of the London-based Kurdish Human Rights Projects and a leading speaker and advisor on Kurdish rights issues,… More
PEN Appeal: Abduljalil Al-Singace and Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja
September 30, 2011 King of Bahrain His Majesty Sheikh Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa Office of His Majesty the King P.O.Box 555 Rifa’a Palace Kingdom of Bahrain. Fax: +973 176 64 587 Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs Sheikh… More
Writers Amnestied
Writers Tran Duc Thach and Nguyen Van Tinh were released under amnesty after being detained in Vietnam in violation of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and… More
PEN Appeal: Tran Duc Thach and Nguyen Van Tinh
October 3, 2011 His Excellency Nguyên Minh Triêt President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hanoi Socialist Republic of Vietnam Minister of Public Security Lt Gen Tran Dai Quang Ministry of Public… More
Selected Poems
what is want what is need / what’s sweat without the breeze / my stepfather would say / in his wide brimmed hat staring / at how… More
An Exhilarating Vertige
Salsa, a collection of 46 poems by the Taiwanese poet Hsia Yü, is an incredible volume of verse by one of the most engaging and innovation poets writing in… More