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Conversation
You can’t believe the kind of thingmy kind go on about, and I in turn can’tunderstand the way your lot continuallyshout, and shout each other down, and eat as… More
Coixí de cascalls
Deep Seine, coursing/ quick under melancholy bridges,/ you bathe the City isle/ where Notre-Dame’s square towers reign,/ a breath of crystal. More
Narcis Comadira: On Evolution/Revolution
Into something rich and strange—William ShakespeareTriumph of LifeSpeak, life, whence do you surge?What powerful urgecan wake your brief corein the most imperceptiblehard residue of stone?From the mineral dust thatstirs,… More
Translation Slam: Poetry and Protests
Inspired by live translation slams that proved to be audience favorites at the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, and again at PEN World Voices, PEN’s Online Translation Slam… More
Newspaper Editor Released
International PEN welcomes the early release of La Verdad editor Milton Chacaguasay Flores, who had been imprisoned since November 2008 for allegedly libeling a judge. Chacaguasay was reportedly freed… More
Trouble On a Rainy Day
THE SETTING is a kitchen and living room seperated by a wall with a doorway. Through the window over the kitchen sink rain and the occasional flash of lightning… More
Wrong Decision
CAST OF CHARACTERSRobert: picked to do a “hit” on one of his fellow gang members, who has used up drugs belonging to the gangDavid: member of the same gang,… More
Authoritarianism in the Light of the Olympic Flame
In April 2007, Beijing announced its grand plan for the Olympic Torch Relay. The official theme, "harmonious journey," was clearly meant as an indirect reference to the "harmonious society"… More
Heavy Hearts
Scene 1 SETTING: The lobby of the Administrative Building of Texas’ Death Row. A leather couch sits in the middle of the lobby. In front of the couch is… More
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