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penamerica PEN America @penamerica ·
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Thank you @pen_southafrica for standing in solidarity with Chinese poet Zhang Guiqi and paying tribute to him on the Empty Chair Podcast.

We continue to call with @pen_int and @chinesepen_org for his release from prison. He is serving a six-year sentence on trumped-up charges.

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de_kristen Kristen de Groot @de_kristen ·
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A poetry translation event organized by Kevin M.F. Platt of @PennSAS, in partnership with @PENamerica, brought Russian-language poets and American translators together in Armenia with the goal of making Russophone voices opposed to war heard in English.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/translating-russophone-poetry-resistance-english

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