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Undocupoets helps immigrant poets regardless of legal status

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Anyone can write a poem. To be a poet, though to have your work read in an age not exactly teeming with famous verse stylists, Amanda Gorman aside you have to submit. Every year, poets around the country submit their work for dozens of prizes and contests, hoping for a shot at prestige, visibility, maybe eventually an academic job offer. It’s a difficult path, and until recently it was an impossible one for poets like Javier Zamora.
Zamora earned his MFA in poetry in 2014 at New York University under the best writers in the country. He’d been published in literary journals like Narrative and Meridian (and would be in the New Republic and the New York Times). But in his early years, he was largely excluded from prizes, contests and fellowships. ....

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Thanks to Undocupoets, poets don't need papers to be heard

Thanks to Undocupoets, poets don't need papers to be heard
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Thanks to Undocupoets, poets don't need papers to be heard
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Disabled LGBTQ+ Creatives Imagine a Better Tomorrow

Disabled LGBTQ+ Creatives Imagine a Better Tomorrow
The Ford and Mellon Foundations invest in queer disabled cultural creatives.
January 29 2021 7:08 PM EST
In the fall of 2020 the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced an 18-month initiative to increase the visibility of disabled creatives and elevate their voices. Developed after the foundations spent a year researching how to better serve disabled artists, writers, filmmakers, and other creatives, the initiative will invest $1 million in supporting 20 disabled creators whose work “advances the cultural landscape,” as the foundations put it.
Through the Disability Futures Fellowship, Ford and Mellon hope to address industry-wide problems in the arts, journalism, and film including a lack of disability visibility, accessible professional development opportunities, and a national grant program that considers the unique financial challenges of disabled creatives. ....

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