apply for writing grants often and are grateful and relieved to receive the award money."The grant is designed to support artists as they make art," Hall says. "You don't write poems because you want to be a millionaire."
"Whether you're at the beginning, middle, or toward the end of your career, anything that helps you financially is going to give you time to write that you wouldn't have otherwise," Kennedy says.
There's more to the NEA fellowship than just money, though. Both poets agree the national recognition can be just as valuable.
from The Post-Standard: Two Upstate poets win $25,000 NEA Creative Writing Fellowships in Poetry
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