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Literature: FY2003 Grants
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation | Literature Fellowships
Organizational Capacity | Panelists
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Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the coordination of National Poetry Month, a project
that brings poetry to schools, libraries, bookstores, cultural
organizations and communities across the country in new and
imaginative ways. The Academy will host library readings, panel
discussions, outreach efforts and special features on the
organization's Web site.
Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
To support readings and workshops by nationally renowned and
local writers to students and community members. The college will
promote the readings through its Web site and newsletters.
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
$55,000
To support the development of Library Networks for Literature,
linking regional libraries with authors, publishers and literary
organizations. The initiative will sponsor a variety of events,
including readings by such writers as Stuart Dybek, E. Ethelbert
Miller and Gail Tsukiyama.
Auburn University Main Campus (consortium)
Auburn University, AL
$20,000
To support creative writing classes at the Julia Tutwiler Prison
for Women and Edwina Mitchell Center Work Release for Women, as
part of the Alabama Prison Arts Initiative. The project will seek
to involve participants' families, prison staff and
administrators.
Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$30,000
To support the continued development and expansion of Words Without
Borders, an interactive Web site devoted to international
literature. The site will feature 100 works of nonfiction, short
stories, poems and novel excerpts a year drawn from approximately
20-25 languages.
Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a writing retreat targeting emerging African-American
poets. Cave Canem will publish an anthology of student work
following the retreat.
Center for Book Arts, Incorporated 1974
New York, NY
$5,000
To support workshops in letterpress printing and fine press
publishing targeting emerging inner-city writers. The center will
sponsor public readings of work printed in the workshops.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Lit Mag Fairs, events designed to present literary
magazines at reduced cost to communities across the country.
Targeted cities include Portland, Ore.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Houston,
Texas; and Columbus, Ohio.
Fishtrap, Inc.
Enterprise, OR
$10,000
To support writing workshops, discussions and readings for
residents of the rural Northwest. Themes for these events will
include the changing demographics of the West, the urban-rural
divide, aging of rural populations, new immigrants of color and the
resurgence of Native-American culture.
Gemini Series, Inc. (aka Gemini Ink)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support Gemini Ink's 2003 Summer Festival/National Writer's
Conference in San Antonio. Activities include readings, writing
workshops for adults and children, and workshops for teachers of
writing.
Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc.
Boise, ID
$20,000
To support BookFest, a free festival focused on writing and reading
about Idaho and the Northwest. The four-day program will feature
readings, panel discussions and writing workshops, as well as
events surrounding Idaho's Book Club selection for What If Everyone
Read the Same Book?
National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support literary outreach programs that link National Book Award
authors with underserved communities throughout the country.
Programs include American Voices, which brings writers to
American-Indian reservations nationwide, and a summer writing camp
for inner-city teens and adults.
Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards
in public transportation systems around the country. Targeted
cities include Los Angeles, Fresno, Philadelphia, Chicago, New
York, Austin and Portland, Ore.
Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
To support a distribution initiative, targeting individuals,
libraries and bookstores in all 50 states with publications from
550 small and independent presses. The project will include
outreach materials, an online bookstore, catalogs and a
newsletter.
Writer's Garret (consortium)
Dallas, TX
$40,000
To support the Writer's Studio, a pilot radio show featuring
interviews with established authors. The show will be broadcast on
KERA-FM to listeners in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and
Arkansas.
Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support Literary Learning for a Lifetime, a series of outreach
programs in the greater Rochester area. Programs include writing
workshops for adults and intergenerational groups, master writing
classes taught by visiting authors, discussions and seminars, and
online classes on writing and publishing.
YMCA of the USA
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the YMCA National Readings Tour, bringing writers to
YMCA Writer's Voice centers throughout the country, and the YMCA
National Writers Community, offering residencies to mid-career
writers. The readings tour will link local writers with nationally
recognized writers for readings in communities such as Billings,
Mont.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Tampa, Fla.
Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$20,000
To support Native Voices, a series of readings, workshops and
discussions throughout Montana exploring contemporary Native
American writing and storytelling. Scheduled participants include
Sherman Alexie, Diane Glancy, Linda Hogan, Joy Harjo and Allison
Adelle Hedge Coke.
Creativity
'A 'A Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for a special
issue of Chain devoted to translation. The issue will
feature multiple translations of selected works and statements from
translators about the process of translation.
92nd Street Y (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew
Association)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series, featuring
readings, performances, literary tributes and live interviews. The
center also will present first American readings of new works of
verse drama.
Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
$25,000
To support the publication of poetry titles selected from two
competitions: the Beatrice Hawley Award and the New York/New
England Award. Selected poets will read from their works at venues
around the country.
American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support publication and national distribution of The American
Poetry Review. The journal will seek to increase its
distribution to more than 2,000 bookstores and newsstands around
the country.
Arroyo Arts Collective
Los Angeles, CA
$6,000
To support Poetry in the Windows, a project to display
multilingual poetry posters along a major commercial corridor in
Los Angeles. The collective will distribute 1,000 brochures
describing the featured poems and reach an estimated audience of
15,000 people during June of 2003.
Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of an anthology of 20th
century U.S. women writers. Writers featured in the anthology will
conduct readings around the country of their own work and work of
earlier U.S. women writers who influenced them.
Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support publication, promotion and distribution costs for issues
of Bamboo Ridge. Proposed issues include a 25th anniversary
edition and a special issue on Hawaiian writers of Korean
heritage.
Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$15,000
To support publication, circulation and related expenses, including
authors' fees, for issues of Conjunctions. Each issue will
be distributed to bookstores throughout the country and subscribers
in more than 40 states and 15 countries.
BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$50,000
To support the production, promotion and related expenses for new
volumes of poetry. Scheduled poets to be published include Willis
Barnstone, Wayne Dodd and Louis Simpson.
CALYX, Inc.
Corvallis, OR
$20,000
To support publication and promotion of issues of Calyx, a
journal of art and literature by women. The journal will increase
honoraria to writers and artists, launch a direct mail subscription
campaign and coordinate a reading series for emerging Calyx
authors.
Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of
new collections of poetry. Scheduled writers include Wang Ping,
Lorenzo Thomas, Brenda Coultas and Yuko Taniguchi.
Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of six plays by
contemporary American playwrights as part of the Green Integer
series. Scheduled playwrights include Kelly Stuart, Pedro Pietri,
Fiona Templeton, John O'Keefe, Mac Wellman and Naomi Iizuka.
Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$65,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of
books of poetry in translation. The list will include bilingual
editions of classic works, new editions of out-of-print
translations, essays on the art of translation and reissues of
significant backlist collections.
Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$20,000
To support the translation and publication of poetry and fiction by
writers from Vietnam, Guatemala, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
Curbstone Press will sponsor readings by international writers in
bookstores, libraries, schools and communities with large minority
populations.
Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the publication and national distribution of books in
the International Women's Writing Project. The press will publish
books by writers in Japan, Iran and northern India, and the
anthology Women on War.
Fiction Collective Two
Tallahassee, FL
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of
new works of fiction. The press will promote the books through
direct mail, press releases to city and community newspapers and
author readings nationwide.
Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$70,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of
volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors
include Tony Hoagland, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Alexander, Vijay
Seshadri, and Jorie Graham.
Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support Poetry Multiplied, a reading series for 2003. Proposed
participants include Jimmy Santiago Baca, August Wilson, Jessica
Hagedorn and Cornelius Eady.
Howard County Poetry and Literature Society, Inc.
Columbia, MD
$20,000
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies
and television interviews featuring nationally recognized authors.
Proposed authors include Julia Alvarez, Michael Chabon, Billy
Collins, Elizabeth Spires, Stanley Plumly, Reuben Jackson, Henry
Taylor, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney and Michael Collier.
Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$10,000
To support the Literary Presentation Series, featuring live
readings by distinguished writers. The readings will be held at the
restored Philipse Manor Railroad on the Hudson River and Sunnyside,
the historic home of Washington Irving in Tarrytown, New York.
Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN
$15,000
To support The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the
Written Word in 2003. With an annual audience of 30,000, this free,
three-day festival features readings and panel sessions by more
than 200 authors.
Intersection for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies
in San Francisco. Proposed artists include bell hooks, Jimmy
Santiago Baca, Dave Eggers and Ruben Martinez.
Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
To support readings, residencies and outreach programs throughout
the Greater Buffalo area. Proposed participants include Jewelle
Gomez, Jessica Hagedorn, Sonia Sanchez, Kimiko Hahn, Jim Carroll,
Dorothy Allison and Victor Hernandez Cruz.
Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support the Minnesota Program for Writers, which provides
workshops and mentors for emerging writers throughout the state.
The program features The Mentor Series, which connects nationally
recognized writers with local writers; and Talking Volumes,
presenting recent original work by advanced writers.
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical
College
Baton Rouge, LA
$30,000
To support production costs and related expenses for books of
poetry. Scheduled titles include Dabney Stuart's The Man Who
Loved Cezanne, David Huddle's Grayscale, Catharine
Brosman's The Muscled Truce and R.T. Smith's
Brightwood.
Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of
volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction by mid-career writers.
Scheduled authors include Deborah Keenan, Janisse Ray, John Caddy,
Gary Paul Nabhan, Bill Holm, David Brendan Hopes and Paul
Gruchow.
Mountain Writers Series
Portland, OR
$30,000
To support readings, residencies and special events throughout the
Pacific Northwest region. Proposed authors include Alice Fulton,
Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Li-Young Lee, W.S.
Merwin, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips and Sherman Alexie.
National Poetry Series, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$10,000
To support judging fees and publication costs for volumes of poetry
selected from the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Chosen
by poets, the winning manuscripts will be published by
HarperCollins, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Sun & Moon Press,
the Univ. of Illinois Press and Viking Penguin.
Open City, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support publication and related costs, including artists' fees,
for issues of Open City. New issues will include fiction,
poetry and essays from contributors such as Lev Rubinshtein, Lara
Vapnyar, Amine Zaitzeff, James Lasdun and Alicia Erian.
Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$16,000
To support the publication and national circulation of issues of
Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The Winter
2003-04 and Spring 2004 issues will feature new work by 70 poets
and 12 fiction writers.
Poetry Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support readings featuring emerging and nationally renowned
writers. Proposed participants include Rita Dove, Li-Young Lee,
Jose Saramago, Anne Waldman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, David Mamet and Stephen Dunn.
Poetry Project, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and
Performance Series, featuring more than 100 poets and performers.
Writers under consideration include Paul Auster, Quincy Troupe,
Maxine Chernoff, Arthur Sze, Robert Creeley and Barbara Guest.
Poetry Slam, Inc.
Whitmore Lake, MI
$20,000
To support the 14th Annual National Poetry Slam in Chicago, Ill.
This four-day festival will showcase more than 250 poets from
across the nation and abroad to an estimated audience of
10,000.
Rain Taxi Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of
issues of Rain Taxi Review of Books. The quarterly magazine
has a current national circulation of 20,000 copies.
Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$25,000
To support the publication and promotion of collections of poetry
and short fiction. Sarabande will create readers' guides
that include interviews, discussion questions, and biographical and
review material, and will make the authors available for online
chats.
Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a series of readings and lectures in Portland, Oregon,
and Seattle, Washington. Proposed participants include Carol Anne
Duffy, Louise Gluck, Linda Gregg, Susan Howe, Galway Kinnell, Yusef
Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Harriet Mullen and Carl Phillips.
Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
$38,000
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public
readings and writing workshops organized by the journal
Callaloo. The journal will sponsor two-week summer workshops
at Texas A&M University, and one-day workshops at historically
black colleges and universities around the country.
Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support readings and panel discussions by prominent authors
participating in the 2003 Texas Book Festival. The festival will
feature such writers as Michael Cunningham, Ai, Rudolfo Anaya,
Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca and Frank McCourt.
The Idaho Review (Boise State University)
Boise, ID
$7,500
To support the production and promotion of issues of The Idaho
Review. The journal will promote its issues through direct
mail, a public reading and a short story contest.
The Missouri Review (University of Missouri at
Columbia)
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support publication, promotion and related expenses for issues
of The Missouri Review. The magazine will enhance its web
site, increase authors' fees and target 50,000 potential readers
through a national direct mail campaign.
Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of the
Threepenny Review. Featuring work by 100 established and
emerging writers, the proposed issues will be promoted through a
direct mail subscription campaign targeting 100,000 readers.
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support publication, promotion, distribution and related
expenses for issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of
International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature Cambodian
and Cambodian-American writing and postmodern Chinese fiction.
University of Iowa Press (University of Iowa)
Iowa City, IA
$8,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two winning
selections from the Iowa Short Fiction Award competition. Titles
will be selected by Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Machine
Dreams.
University of Nebraska Press (University of Nebraska
at Lincoln)
Lincoln, NE
$50,000
To support the publication and distribution of literary work in
translation. The press will publish anthologies of new
French-African short stories, Islandic Literature and contemporary
Jewish writing from Sweden and Brazil.
White Pine Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support the translation, publication and promotion of titles in
the World of Voices Project. White Pine will market the series
through targeted mailings and print ads, and will continue to
upgrade its web site to include book excerpts, reviews and study
guides.
Women's Review, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
$10,000
To support publication costs for two special issues of The
Women's Review of Books. The special issues will focus on women
and aging.
Woodland Pattern Book Center
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
To support a series of readings, exhibits and workshops in
Milwaukee's inner city. Proposed visiting authors include Kathleen
Fraser, Ed Friedman, Suheir Hammad, Lisa Jarnot, Joanne Kyger,
Nathaniel Mackay, Sianne Ngai, Anne Waldman and Luci Tapahonso.
Writer's Center
Bethesda, MD
$10,000
To support readings and workshops in rural towns in Maryland and
Virginia. Proposed visiting writers include Cynthia Ozick, Jane
Smiley, Stanley Plumly, Thomas Lux, E. Ethlebert Miller and Henry
Taylor.
The Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers using the
Writers Room, an urban writer's colony in New York City. For $225
each per quarter year, The Writers Room provides 400 authors with
workspace 24 hours a day.
The Writers' Room of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
To support subsidized workspace for emerging writers using the
Writers' Room of Boston. For $175 each per quarter year, the
Writers' Room of Boston provides 40 authors with workspace 24 hours
a day.
ZYZZYVA, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and related costs for issues
of Zyzzyva, a magazine featuring the work of West Coast
writers. Each issue includes approximately 20 writers, one-third of
whom have never been in print.
Heritage/Preservation
Center for Book Culture
Normal, IL
$55,000
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern
fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be
republished as part of the press's International Recovery Project
include Ivan Angelo, Violette Leduc, Robert Pinget, Nathalie
Sarraute and Ignacio Brandao.
Naropa University
Boulder, CO
$25,000
To support the preservation of recordings of central literary
figures who have visited the Poetics School between 1974 and 1986.
Authors featured on the tapes include Philip Whalen, Gregory Corso,
Ted Berrigan, William S. Burroughs and Meredith Monk.
Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Writers-at-Work interviews in The Paris Review.
Potential interviewees include Pat Barker, Anne Carson, Andrea
Barrett, Janet Malcolm, Michael Chabon, Richard Powers, Barry
Hannah, Ian Frazier and Jonathan Lethem.
Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Poetry Publication Showcase, a series of programs
designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print.
The Showcase will feature panel discussions, readings and an
intensive three-day workshop to help librarians bring poetry to
their communities.
Words Given Wings Literary Arts Project (aka Mercury
House)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Mercury House's publication and national distribution of
culturally significant works of international literature. Scheduled
titles include Running Through Fire, a memoir by Holocaust
survivor Zosia Goldberg as told to Hilton Obenzinger, with an
introduction by Paul Auster; and Border Crosser: Selected
Writings of Victor Perera.
Literature Fellowships
The 2003 Literature Fellowships recognize the following writers in poetry, encouraging the production of new work by affording these writers the time and means to write.
Each grantee will receive $20,000
Ralph Adamo
New Orleans, LA
Daniel Anderson
Sewanee, TN
Quan Barry
Madison, WI
Kevin Bowen
Dorchester, MA
Geoffrey Brock
Dallas, TX
Nan Cohen
Sherman Oaks, CA
Theodore Deppe
Bloomington, IN
Camille Dungy
Lynchburg, VA
Jill Alexander Essbaum
Austin, TX
Beth Ann Fennelly
Galesburg, IL
Ted Genoways
Minneapolis, MN
Diane Glancy
St. Paul, MN
Joanna Goodman
New York, NY
David Gravender
Seattle, WA
Lola Haskins
LaCrosse, FL
David Keplinger
Harleysville, PA
Jacqueline Lyons
Salt Lake City, UT
Carl Marcum
Chicago, IL
Corey Marks
Denton, TX
Cleopatra Mathis
Hanover, NH
Davis McCombs
Fayetteville, AR
Jeffrey McDaniel
Los Angeles, CA
Kat Meads
Santa Cruz, CA
Joseph Millar
Eugene, OR
D. A. Powell
Somerville, MA
Paisley Rekdal
Laramie, WY
Thomas Reiter
Neptune, NJ
Angela Shaw
Arlington, MA
Peter Shippy
Jamaica Plain, MA
Ron Silliman
Paoli, PA
Larissa Szporluk
Bowling Green, OH
Brian Teare
East Palo Alto, CA
Robert Thomas
S. San Fransisco, CA
Ann Townsend
Granville, OH
Chris Tysh
Ferndale, MI
Marlys Mitchell West
Austin, TX
Eliot Wilson
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gary Young
Santa Cruz, CA
TRANSLATION PROJECTS IN POETRY
The 2003 Literature Fellowship recognizes the following writers in translating literature and providing insights into other countriesÍ cultures, politics, and values.
Roger Greenwald
Toronto, Canada
$20,000
To support the translation from Danish of selected poems by Henrik
Nordbrandt. Winner of the 2000 Nordic Council Literature Prize,
Nordbrandt is one of the most significant poets to have emerged in
Scandinavia since the end of World War Two.
Jerzy Gregorek
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
To support the translation from Polish of selected poems by Mauryey
Szymel. Gregorek will collaborate with his wife, Aniela
Gregorek.
Henry Israeli
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Albanian of selected poems by
Luljeta Lleshanaku. Israeli will collaborate with Shpresa
Qatipi.
Shirley Kaufman
Jerusalem, Israel
$20,000
To support the translation from Hebrew of selected poems by Meir
Wieseltier. Born in Moscow in 1941, Wieseltier lived in Siberia and
throughout Europe before he settled in Israel.
Alexis Levitin
Morrisonville, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Portuguese of two collections of
selected poems by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Herberto
Helder. Both distinguished, award-winning poets, Andresen (b. 1919)
and Helder (b. 1930) represent two extremes among the diversity of
voices in contemporary Portuguese poetry.
Mike O'Connor
Port Townsend, WA
$20,000
To support the translation from Classical Chinese of Another
Path: Poems on Chinese Reclusion. The collection will feature
15 poets from the mid- and late Tang Dynasty.
Daniel Shapiro
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Spanish of Cipango by
Chilean poet Tomas Harris. Little known in the U.S., Harris
received numerous awards in Latin America, including the Pablo
Neruda Priza, the Altazor Award, and the Casa de las Amercas
Prize.
Carol Ueland
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Russian of selected poems by
Aleksandr Kushner. Ueland will collaborate with Robert
Carnevale.
Keith Waldrop
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support the translation from French of Jean Grosjean's book of
poems, Terre du temps. Born in 1912, Grosjean has published
more than a dozen books of poetry. His first book of poems,
Terre du temps was published in 1946 and was awarded the
Prix de la Pleiade.
Elizabeth Wright
Waltham, MA
$10,000
To support the translation from German of Zafer Senocak's sixth
book of poems, Fernwehanstalten. Raised in Turkey and
Germany, Senocak has published seven books of poetry.
Organizational Capacity
Associated Writing Programs
Fairfax, VA
$65,000
To support the production, printing and distribution of The
Writer's Chronicle and the AWP Job List, continued
development of the AWP Web site, and the 2003 AWP Conference in
Chicago, Illinois. AWP will promote the publications and its annual
conference through a 200,000-piece direct mail campaign.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY
$35,000
To support new and enhanced services for independent literary
publishers. Scheduled activities include an interactive Web site, a
national conference and an updated publication of the Directory
of Literary Magazines & Presses.
Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support the Audience Access Project, providing guidance on how
to reach target audiences to literary organizations, presenters,
publishers and writers in California. The organization will provide
outlets for promotion on its Web site and Poetry Flash, a
free tabloid of event listings, readings, workshops and calls for
submissions.
Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine
and the continued development and promotion of the Poets &
Writers Web site. Other project activities include seminars,
panels, lectures and pamphlets providing writers with practical
information on the business of writing.
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