Presenting three poems from Diaries of Exile by Greek poet Yannis Ritsos, whose works were burned and banned several times between 1936 and 1970. Now, the latest version of his work is short-listed for the 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
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A look at Ai Weiwei – The Fake Case, a new documentary produced and directed by Danish filmmaker Andreas Johnsen. Chronicling Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei’s life from 2009-2012, it follows his release from solitary confinement and subsequent placement under house arrest in 2011.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president, Tienchi Martin-Liao, reflects on the five-year anniversary of imprisonment of dissident writer and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, his wife’s prolonged, Kafkaesque house arrest, the calls for solidarity from Chinese human rights activists, and the power of words.
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On the rise and fall (for now) of the popular Butcher Shop, an innovative philanthropic e-commerce project that provides financial aid to families of political prisoners. The venture is organized by Rice-Delivery-Party, a writer/activist collective led by the author and blogger Ye Fu.
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Khet Mar profiles blogger Nay Phone Latt who was sentenced to twenty years in prison for providing information to foreign media during the Saffron Revolution.
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Artist Min Ko Naing has spent almost 20 of his 50 years in prison for his work as an activist and writer. The poet Khet Mar talks about sending books to him in prison and how he feels about the new Burma.
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Artist Min Ko Naing has spent almost 20 of his 50 years in prison for his work as an activist and writer. Khet Mar talks about sending books to him in prison and how he feels about the new Burma.
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