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Mary Ann Hoberman Appointed as Children’s Poet Laureate
Please join PEN in congratulating Mary Ann Hoberman, who will serve as the nation's second Children's Poet Laureate: Consultant in Children's Poetry to the Poetry Foundation for a two-year… More
Writers Hail Ruling in Favor of Guantanamo Detainees
PEN American Center today hailed a federal court ruling ordering that 17 Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay be released into the United States. The decision could signal the end… More
Song for Night
Death Is Two Fingers Sliding Across the ThroatDeath is always the expectation here and when my throat was cut it was no different. Nobody explained it at first. Nobody… More
Conrad Loomis & the Clothes Ray
He called me up one night about 2 in the morning and said he hated to disturb me, but he had something which could get us both rich if… More
The Perfect Man
Gerard Travers lifted the little dark boy off the train and onto the platform at Victoria. It had been a hard journey from India for the child, who had… More
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn
1. The Greasy Grass Fight, or the Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 1876“Soldiers falling into camp . . .”In formation, they charged across a broad and open floodplain… More
Transparency
He wanted to remember them, but it seemed impossible for his mind to remember anything so beautiful and vast. On previous vacations, he had bought a postcard or two… More
Tamil Journalists Detained
International PEN protests the detention of Tamil journalists V. Jasikaran and J. S. Tissainayagam, who have been held for six months under terrorist legislation, apparently for their critical writings. More
Writers Commemorate Burmese Uprisings, Rally for Jailed Colleagues
Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Kiran Desai, Siri Hustvedt, Joseph Lelyveld, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, and George Packer shared the stage of the Great Hall of Cooper Union last night with… More