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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: Dawit Isaac
September 22, 2011 His Excellency Issayas Afewerki Office of the President P O Box 257 Asmara, Eritrea Fax: + 2911 125123 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international… More
Visions of a Disaster
The reader embarks upon two journeys: in the first, we drive with protagonist and narrator Pablo from Spain to France as he pursues his girlfriend Teba, who is on… More
PEN Appeal: Abu Zara Al-Amin
September 14, 2011 H.E. President Omar Al Bashir Office of the President People’s Palace P.O. Box 281 Khartoum Sudan Fax: +249 183 782 541 / +249 183 774339 Minister of Justice Mr. Mohammed Bushara Dousa Ministry of Justice P.O. Box… More
PEN Appeal: Faranak Farid
September 20, 2011 His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic The Office of the Supreme Leader Shoahada Street Qom Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani Head of the Judiciary c/o Public… 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
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