Stand Up For Freedom!
Enjoy an evening of political comedy and commentary, as New York's top progressive performers joke, jab, rant, vent, prod, provoke, and revel in their right to express themselves at… More
Puppet-Making and Parades: Free Workshops Coming Up
In the lead up to this year’s World Voices Festival, PEN is teaming up with Processional Arts Workshop (PAW) for a series of drop-in workshops to create giant puppets… More
Moving Forward, Looking Backward
httpv://youtu.be/siXPcM0Jn_U Ten years after the first detainees of America’s war on terrorism arrived at Guantanamo Bay, we must ask ourselves: What needs to be done to repair the damage caused… More
PEN Translation Committee Member Sylvie Kande at Columbia 11/14
Sylvie Kandé will read excerpts from her neo-epic poem, La quête infinie de l’autre rive: Épopée en trois chants (Gallimard, 2011), followed by a discussion on the theme of… More
Reading from The Taxi Project by Martha Kuwee Kumsa
I was released in September 1989 after a decade of torture and incarceration. Even though my imprisonment was limited to the radius of the prison compound—Ethiopia itself was a… More
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