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Susana Chavez Castillo -Poet, woman rights and human rights. Please don’t forget her.
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Susana Chávez Castillo, a prominent poet and women’s rights advocate, was found murdered in the border town of Ciudad Juárez on 6 January 2011. Her body found strangled, with one of her hands cut off, was only identified five days later. Chávez (born...
PEN Report on Freedom of Expression after Gezi
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Pen International issued a report this week calling attention to escalating restrictions on journalists and writers in Turkey, particularly after the crackdown on the Gezi Protests last June. The excessive use of police force, as well as widespread...
Homero Aridjis and Pierre Joris: Two Pieces on the PEN American Center Award to Charlie Hebdo
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[For the record & because I’m feeling some irritation following the recent PEN Center / Charlie Hebdo brouhaha, I’m posting these two pieces on today’s Poems and Poetics. Both Joris & Aridjis have been very close to me over the years, &...

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Become a friend of PEN International Freedom of expression is deteriorating worldwide giving way to a rise in hate speech and oppressive legislation which threatens the lives and wellbeing of all kind...
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Ignazio Silone 1946–47 Maurice Maeterlinck 1947–49 Symbolist, Playwright, Poet and Novelist, Belgian, Nobel Prize in Literature (1911). Author of “The Blue Bird” (1908) and Pelléas et Mélisande. Bened...

Day of the Imprisoned Writer: Take Action for Dareen Tatour, Poet PEN International

Home Page > Day of the Imprisoned Writer: Take Action for Dareen Tatour, Poet Poet Dareen Tatour, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, is currently standing trial on charges of “support for a terror...