Articles

"Kurdish poet and journalist Nedim Türfent spent more than six years in prison for his journalistic work. To PEN/Opp Magazine, he described life behind bars and how letters, solidarity and literature kept him alive."

"Four poems from the poetry collection "Ópalo Negro" (2025), by a young Cuban poet exiled in Greece, built around a question wider than exile alone: what remains of us—family, memory, love, identity—when so much else is taken or left behind, and what we manage to rebuild."

"A realistic look at life as an activist in Vietnam: "You may have heard or read about the significant freeze in government funding for both domestic and foreign aid, a policy shift initiated by the Trump administration.""

"We're birds. Our identity is flying, and that's something this cage doesn't allow. Have a baby? Our child wouldn't even feel the breeze on its wings"