Blog
Filter By:
Advocacy • Analysis • Blog • Commentary • Drama • Essay • Event • Feature • Fiction • Graphic Narrative • Interview • Memoir • News • Obituary • Open Letter • Poetry • Press Release • Profile
Browse By Series:
PEN Poetry Series • Prison Writing • The PEN Ten Interviews • Illustrated PEN • Pen Pals • The PEN World
Browse By Email Subscription:
PEN America News • Educational Censorship News • Works of Justice
Translation Slam
viu o primeiro sol/ depois do inverno/ desembrulhar, folho por/ folho, os rebentos More
PEN Appeal:
January 15, 2010 His Excellency Hu Jintao President of the People’s Republic of China State Council Beijing 100032 P.R. China Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,400 members of PEN American Center, an international organization… More
American Sublime
We want Brasil but Brasil won’t win. Aden waves a desultory green and yellow flag. From the East to the West to the West to the East we scatter and settle and… More
leadbelly: poems
leadbelly v. lomaxat themodern language association conference, 1934 a costume.dark overalls,handkerchiefand ugly-ass shitkickers,clutched like gifts in his outstretched hands chase the stink of mule dirt backinto my head. now he… More
PEN President Appiah Nominates Liu Xiaobo for Nobel Peace Prize
PEN American Center President and Professor of Philosophy Kwame Anthony Appiah on Friday sent his nomination of Chinese colleague Liu Xiaobo for the Nobel Peace Prize to the Norwegian… More
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Nomination of Liu Xiaobo for the Nobel Peace Prize
On January 29, 2010, PEN President Kwame Anthony Appiah sent his letter of nomination for Liu Xiaobo for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. More
Grand Tour
In America I’m not really a private person. No, I’m a public person. And a public person cannot write. More
PEN Letter of Support for Nomination of Liu Xiaobo
On January 29, 2010, 20 members of PEN American Center submitted a letter of support for Kwame Anthony Appiah's nomination of Liu Xiaobo for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. More
Detained PEN Officer Zhao Shiying Released
PEN American Center has learned that Zhao Shiying, Secretary-General of the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC), has been allowed to return home after nearly two weeks in police custody.… More
Kwame Anthony Appiah Applauds State Department Actions to End Exclusion of Tariq Ramadan from U.S.
On January 20, 2010, PEN American Center President Kwame Anthony Appiah issued the following statement applauding the end of the ideological exclusion from the United States of Swiss scholar Tariq… More
Support for the freedom to read with exclusive designs by Todd Parr, Mike Curato, Art Spiegelman, and more!
