Without leaving your armchair, sofa, or desk, you can donate a dollar or two via paypal to help Tupelo Press, a non-profit organization, raise money for a matching grant. Grant money, as you know is in danger of getting cut. From the high school levels and beyond, arts organizations have to fight for grant money. Regional, community, and local arts agencies are no different. Tupelo Press, from MA, is raising funds to match a grant that will allow them to continue excellence in publishing.
Why small presses? Why Tupelo Press? First, Tupelo has a grant in the shute, and needs matching funds to get the projects started. Second, we're talking poetry (mostly) here, which does not translate well electronically. The publishing world is changing, but poetry doesn't read well on your kindle, nook, i-pad--all the lines get mashed up. Third, we're talking about the writer the big publishing houses turn their noses up at. We're talking about different faith traditions. We're talking about translations from different cultures and projects involving the unknown writer and well known writer.
To support Tupelo Press, I'm writing a poem a day for the month of August to raise awareness and funds for a matching grant that will put writers to work.
Right now Tupelo Press has specials that will help them meet funding goals (before kickstarter--this was the old school kickstarter--we'll give you some cesh (sic) if you raise the rest of the cesh (sic)--for your cultural project). From the Press.... nine books for 99 bucks (that's a book for you and x-mas presents for eight other people), Russian translations, photo albums, anthologies of poets talking about faith. It does not take much time, nor money to help raise money. Please visit them at http://www.tupelopress.org/ and check out their exciting titles.
Again, you can also have me write a poem for you. Make a donation and you can direct my pen, and my breath.
You can check out the progress of the 30/30 poets here.
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