from Angel of Oblivion
As soon as she starts moving, I follow her. She is my queen bee and I am her drone. The scent of her clothes reaches my nose… More
Four Questions for Simon Armitage, Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
For the first time in my life I was bilingual, even if I could only communicate with people who had been dead for half a millennium. More
The PEN Ten with Deborah Smith
I never discuss a translation while I’m working on it, because for me the author’s voice and intention are all there on the page. More
Wayne Koestenbaum Reads Antonin Artaud
It probably couldn’t be published anywhere in the world today, except the fact that he’s dead makes it possible to be published. More
Two Poems by Mu Cao
Your brain is stuffed with / garbage from books the System crams into you / Since grade school you’ve been mastering songs of praise / —Oh, you busy bees More
Class Notes: A Protest March
September 2012, they chose to take to the streets, band together, and shout as much as they liked. It fulfilled an inner need for which other people abandoned rationality… More
Two Poems by Chi Lingyun
But you must be able to see the rope around my waist / as I circle the coffin that’s adorned with multicolored streamers; More
The 2017 PEN International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee Conference
The Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (TLRC) was founded in 1978 and focuses on supporting translation and marginalized languages throughout the world. More
The Right to Be Invisible
When he woke up, the sun was gone and so were the stars. The entire universe had turned invisible. More
