Tuesday, January 20, 2009

News at Eleven (Back Page): Slammed by the economic downturn,

the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has canceled its signature poetry festival for 2010 and implied the event may not return in its nationally recognized form.

David Grant, president and CEO of the Morristown foundation, said the poetry program--until now--had been spared the kind of cuts that have affected other foundation grant areas every year since 2002.

"Poetry was the last thing where we had to pull back and try to do more with less or try to do different things," Grant said.

In a letter to its poetry constituents, Grant said the foundation's assets have dropped 30 percent.

from The Star-Ledger: N.J. poetry festival organizers cancel 2010 event, future uncertain

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