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Four Poems from Salsa
God made the heaven and the earth and on the seventh day / Languid and no longer loving we drifted into the forest More
PEN Appeal: Lu Van Bay
September 21, 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
Dave King on Javier Marías’s Dark Back of Time
“I believe I’ve still never mistaken fiction for reality,” Marías begins—offering, perhaps, the first of many possible inventions and introducing a narrator who, in his astonishment at art’s irresistible… More
PEN Appeal: Woubshet Taye, Reeyot Alemu, and Martin Schibbye
September 14, 2011 Minister of Justice Berhanu Hailu Ministry of Justice P.O. Box 1370 Addis Ababa Ethiopia Fax: +251 11 551 7775/ 7755 Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Seyoum Mesfin Ministry of Foreign Affairs P.O. Box 393 Addis Ababa Ethiopia Fax: +251… More
Ten Years On, Dawit Isaac Still Detained Incommunicado
PEN International protests the decade-long imprisonment of Eritrean-Swedish journalist and author Dawit Isaac, who has been detained incommunicado without charge since September 23, 2001. More
Journalist, Playwright, Filmmaker, and Iraqi Pen Member Murdered
PEN International is appalled by the murder of prominent journalist, playwright, filmmaker, and Iraqi PEN Member Hadi al-Mahdi, who was shot dead at his home in Baghdad on September… More
A Different Way of Knowing
This is a rad interview between Matthew Zapruder and Dean Rader over at SFGate. It’s pretty amazing to hear both poets talk about how there poems come together. More
Activist and Internet Writer Sentenced
PEN International protests the four-year sentence handed down to activist and Internet writer Lu Van Bay on August 22, 2011, for his critical online writings. More
Generation T
When I was coming up, there were fewer opportunities for young translators and sources of support than there are now. More
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