“The decision drew criticism from advocates for free expression. And over the weekend, a number of writers scheduled to appear at 92NY in the coming months announced their intentions to pull out, and some members of the poetry center’s staff resigned.
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“The poet Paisley Rekdal and the critic Andrea Long Chu also wrote on X that they were pulling out of their events.
“‘I am aware of the very difficult position that the Y is in, and I’m deeply sympathetic to it,’ Rekdal said in an email on Monday. ‘However, the Y’s decision has unintentional knock-on effects for the writing community as a whole, in particular an implicit chilling effect on free speech.’”
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