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January 11, 2012 | Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium | New York CityPEN American Center marks the 10th anniversary of the arrival of the first 20 captives at Guantanamo Bay… More

With Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian, Patricia Smith, Jamal Joseph, Marie Ponsot, Lemon Andersen, Sean Wilsey, and other guestsPEN Members and friends read the award-winning work from PENs Prison Writing… More

Patricia Smith reads Diane Hamill Metzger's Panopticon, winner of an honorable mention for poetry in PEN's 2005 Prison Writing Contest, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More

Margaret Atwood accepts the 2010 PEN Literary Service Award at the 2010 PEN Gala, held at the Museum of National History in New York City. More

With Ben Okri and Anderson Tepper For two decades, Nigerian-born author Ben Okri has been one of world literatures most beloved, spellbinding, and unclassifiable voices. The author of nine novels,… More

October 12, 2011| CUNY Graduate Center | New York CityMarcus Gardley accepts the 2011 PEN/ Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career at… More

April 29, 2011 | Bowery Poetry Club | New York CityRahul Bhattacharya reads from his novel The Sly Company of People Who Care at a Cocktail Hour Reading, part… More

Unified by the motto, "We have a dream that one day, all work will be valued equally," Domestic Workers United is a guild of New York nannies, housekeepers, and… More

Alina Bronsky reads "Knock Their Faces in! Germany is for Germans" by Günter Wallraff at Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More

On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons With Torture More