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On Public Lives/Private Lives
Without a sound she sight-reads The song of the letter Sings each sentence on the breath Of the one who wrote it More
Billy Collins Reads Shi Tao’s “June” as Part of Free Expression Poem Relay
As the Olympic torch reached the U.S., PEN American Center today released a recording of former U.S. Poet Laureate and PEN American Center Vice President Billy Collins reading imprisoned… More
Clean Sheets
Prolific Dutch novelist and journalist Arnon Grunberg (Amsterdam, 1971) has done many things: win the same first-novel prize for a second time (pseudonymously as Marek van der Jagt), publish… More
Public Lives/Private Lives
LaborMy handwriting is rough, a prisoner’s scriptedletter, the cropped fields and your winter handsfolding into my pockets for lack of gloves.I could go in any direction in this field… More
Billy Collins Reads Shi TaoŸ??s Ÿ??JuneŸ? as Part of Free Expression Poem Relay
As the Olympic torch reached the U.S., PEN American Center today released a recording of former U.S. Poet Laureate and PEN American Center Vice President Billy Collins reading imprisoned… More
Hu Jia Sentenced to 3 1/2 Years for “Inciting Subversion”
Calling today’s sentencing hearing for dissident writer and human rights defender Hu Jia “a discouraging sign of China’s indifference both to the basic rights of its citizens and to… More
PEN Calls on U.S. to Review Exclusion, Admit Banned British Author
PEN American Center issued the following letter to appeal to the Departments of Homeland Security and State to review the exclusion of British author Sebastian Horsley from the United… More
British Author Sebastian Horsley Refused Entry to U.S.
PEN American Center is appealing to the Departments of Homeland Security and State to review the exclusion of British author Sebastian Horsley from the United States, calling the decision… More
CYAB Committee Visits New Orleans
As part of an ongoing relationship between the PEN Children’s Book Committee and the Martin Luther King School of New Orleans, author and photographer Susan Kuklin and author Elizabeth… More
Trial Reinforces Fears Hu Jia Is Being Silenced for His Writings
PEN American Center today called reports of the trial of prominent activist and writer Hu Jia “extremely troubling and discouraging,” saying the proceedings apparently did nothing but underscore the… More
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