News at Eleven: [Julianne] Couch goes on to describe several

of the writing groups in far-flung areas of Wyoming, and their publishing successes. She also notes how relatively well-funded Wyoming's Art Council is, "to the tune of $2 million a year."

So not only can Wyoming boast that Cody is the new Literary Capital of America (as I've declared it to be), it also hosts the Highest Writing Group in America. I won't make a joke about how that distinction used to belong to Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, but you can.

from New West: Social Media Uprising at the Jack Kerouac School and Wyoming Writers Band Together

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