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The PEN Pod: Writing, Healing, and Redemption with Natashia Deón

InterviewNovember 19, 2021

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It’s #WorldPoetryDay. Who are you reading?

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Annual World Poetry Day is celebrated today. Share Galal's new poem 'In My Silence Is My Death' written in Badr Prison:
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For #WorldPoetryDay, listen to “Spring Will Come” by Taciana Niadbaj of @pen_belarus in Belarusian with English subtitles. Poet Armen Ohanyan of #PENArmenia reads Niadbaj’s poem in Armenian.

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