A petition in support of Octavio Paz, put forth by Charles Tomlinson and signed by Rita Dove, John Ashbery, Joseph Brodsky, W. S. Merwin, Eliot Weinberger, Richard Howard, Frank Bidart, Micahel Hamburger, Bei Dao, Mark Strand, Ted Hughes, A. R. Ammons, Michael Palmer, Frederick Morgan, Nathaniel Tarn, Yehuda Amachai, Derek Walcott, and Haroldo de Campos.