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Canyon Sam: Sky Train
Canyon Sam received a 2010 Open Book Award.At the beginning of my fifth week, I flew from Chengdu in western China to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, a three-hour flight… More
Marilyn Hacker: Selected Poems
Lines that grapple doubt, written because of the beloved :// when grief subsides, what survives the loss of the beloved ? More
Michael Henry Heim: Wonder
From “The Statue Garden”The columns are identical, made of concrete and topped by an old-fashioned crown of braided leaves (laurel branches?), a bulging shaft, and a square base. Mass… More
Writer Liao Yiwu Finally Permitted to Travel Outside China
PEN American Center today welcomed the Chinese government’s decision to lift its travel ban against renowned writer and Independent Chinese PEN Center Board Member Liao Yiwu, who is traveling… More
Point Omega
I tormented myself over the running time, settling finally on a freakish fifty-seven-minute movie that was screened at a couple of documentary festivals. It could have been a hundred… More
Author takes on China’s premier, aware that free speech…
BEIJING — Yu Jie has picked a fight with the Communist Party of China, and if state security forces haul him away in the dark of night, there will… More
Writers Support Park51 Project, Religious Freedom
PEN American Center, the New York-based center of the 89-year-old international literary and human rights organization PEN, today released a statement in support of the proposed Park51 Community Center… More
Commentary: Torture memos — Accountability everywhere but here?
Eight years ago today, armed with two legal opinions that gutted the prohibition against torture, CIA agents and contractors began the month-long "enhanced interrogation" of Abu Zubaydah in a… More
Move the Back of Your Heart Towards the Front of Your Heart
On Saturday, July 21, PEN American hosted poets Janaka Stucky and Ana Božičević at the second annual New York City Poetry Festival. More
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