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The Anfractuous Way Forward
The Anfractuous Way Forward

A weekly roundup of PEN-related news from around the web. [More]

January 27, 2012 06:26 PM

PEN Protesta! Kicks Off
PEN Protesta! Kicks Off

At “PEN Protesta!” delegates representing PEN’s distinguished global membership lend their voices to the growing national chorus demanding effective protections for members of the Mexican press. [More]

January 27, 2012 06:16 PM

Confronting a Culture of Impunity
Confronting a Culture of Impunity

Mexico has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world in which to be a journalist, which means that all Mexican writers and journalists face the spectre of intimidation. [More]

January 27, 2012 04:22 PM

Amber Flora Thomas: Five Poems
Amber Flora Thomas: Five Poems

In a new leg of the relay, Amber Flora Thomas reads five poems her two latest manuscripts, including The Rabbits Could Sing, which will be published by University of Alaska Press next month. [More]

January 27, 2012 02:54 PM

PEN Children’s and Young Adult Book Authors Committee Receives Award
PEN Children’s and Young Adult Book Authors Committee Receives Award

The Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans recently recognized a group of authors who visited the school for a series of writers’ workshops from 2006 to 2011. [More]

January 26, 2012 04:26 PM

Pierre Joris: Remembering Carl Weissner (1940–2012)
Pierre Joris: Remembering Carl Weissner (1940–2012)

PEN Translation Committee member Pierre Joris—poet and translator of Paul Celan, Blanchot, Tengour, and many others—remembers Carl Weissner, who died earlier this week in his home in Mannheim. [More]

January 26, 2012 03:14 PM

Matthew Zapruder: I Drink Bronze Light
Matthew Zapruder: I Drink Bronze Light

This installment of the PEN Poetry Series features a new poem from Matthew Zapruder, author most recently of Come on All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). [More]

January 26, 2012 02:22 PM

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