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Octaves Later

Poetry
By: | March 8, 2012

Beyond / the nerve tonic / I came up rather quickly / now it’s a way of saying something / as if another century had passed More

HotINK Festival

March 5, 2012

While many of the world’s greatest plays are only known to American audiences through translation (those by Sophocles, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Ionesco, to name but a very few),… More

Writer Sent to Labor Camp

Rapid ActionMarch 2, 2012

Human rights activist, writer, and Belarus PEN member Ales Bialiatski’s four-and-a-half-year sentence has been upheld on January 24, 2012. More

Remembering Barney Rosset

By: | February 27, 2012

Barney Rosset’s death demands a focus on a life filled with extremes. His financial ups and downs—mainly downs—his personal intensity; his absolute unwillingness to compromise: these, combined with a… More

Poetry, Not Just a Book

February 23, 2012

Poetry is not just a book anymore. Beyond online journals, poems happily interact with film and video, music, dance, and, well, we’re here today to celebrate all the ways… More

An Island of Peace

NonfictionFebruary 22, 2012

Kings are in trouble. From presidents. The Buganda king is a waiter in London. Uganda is a picture on a map, shaped like the back of the bumpy head… More

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