PEN New England is now at MIT

PEN New England
MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
14N-221A
Cambridge, MA 02139
617.324.1729
pen-newengland@mit.edu

 

 
 

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Chuck Berry & Leonard Cohen
to receive 2012 Awards for
SONG LYRICS OF LITERARY EXCELLENCE

Awards Committee: Bono, Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Paul Muldoon, Smokey Robinson, Salman Rushdie, and Paul Simon. Bill Flanagan Committee Chair
Sunday, Feburary 26, 2012
Information about reservations and registration coming soon…

 

 
 

Coming in April….
 

The PEN/ Hemingway & PEN/ Winship awards ceremony. More information to follow.
 
 

spacer Gary Snyder to receive “The Henry David Thoreau Award” for literary excellence in nature writing.
More information to follow.

 
 

 
       
 

 
 

 
 
 
 

spacer Last fall, poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry was joined by journalist Bill McKibben in a conversation about writing and civil disobedience. Both authors follow in the footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, using the power of the word and acts of civil disobedience to defend fragile ecosystems and preserve threatened communities from degradation. PEN New England honored Wendell Berry with The Howard Zinn “People Speak” Award. Click here to listen to the program