More arrivals in my email about literary magazines losing their NEA grants. The week that I went broke and all I can do is put the info here hoping whoever reads this might be able to what I cannot.
Deep Vellum is a nonprofit publishing house and literary arts organization with the mission to bring the world into conversation through literature.
Read their mission and what can be done for them at The NEA defunded us. Now what?
AGNI:
AGNI is a literary magazine housed at Boston University and known “among readers around the world,” as the writers group PEN put it, “for publishing important new writers early in their careers, many of them translated into English for the first time.”
The print magazine appears twice yearly, in late April and late October. A very small portion of each is reprinted on this site, but you’ll also find a trove of writing published exclusively online, including categories like reviews and interviews that we tend not to feature in “the print.”
Most of the writing we publish comes to us unsolicited. Our authors and translators include Sharon Olds, Patricia Smith, Stephen Dixon, Donald Quist, Joan Wickersham, Michael Mejia, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Rita Dove, Victoria Lancelotta, Jo Ann Beard, Peter Balakian, Noah Warren, Jenny Xie, Kaveh Akbar, Magdalena Tulli, Marilyn Hacker, Dorthe Nors, Bruce Smith, Cyrus Cassells, Melanie Rae Thon, Susan Bernofsky, Jill McDonough, Robert Long Foreman, Paisley Rekdal, Patrick Modiano, Lia Purpura, Anna Journey, and Maggie Smith.
Cherishing our differences as much as the verities we share, we are drawn to writers of every creed, race, orientation, gender, ethnicity, culture, national origin, age, and experience. We’re especially proud when we can lay claim to being the first to publish a new writer or translator.
On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump (Literary Hub) wherein Maris Kreizman wrote:
It’s a dark time in America when culture of all kinds is devalued and discarded. We need indie presses and literary magazines for a thriving—or even just doing sorta okay—literary ecosystem (we also need local libraries and independent bookstores). We need that healthy ecosystem because literature is its own kind of lifeblood, and we can’t let a vampiric, wealth-hoarding government run by monsters and idiots take it away from us. So PRH ad sales, if you’re reading this, maybe take out an ad or two?
A Message from the NEA’s Literary Arts Staff (n+1)
It has been an honor to be part of an agency that, for almost 60 years, has also played a vital role in shaping the literary arts. We find ourselves reflecting with pride on the vast and various impacts the NEA has made during that time. In addition to supporting many hundreds of nonprofit organizations and publishers, the NEA has awarded fellowships to nearly 600 translators to render literature from more than 80 languages and 90 countries expertly into English, and to more than 3,800 poets and writers, often at critical stages of their careers and years before their work was acknowledged by other awards and appointments. And there have been many impactful initiatives over the decades. The NEA Big Read, for example, has reached every Congressional district in the country and has attracted partnerships from more than 40,000 community organizations, and we’re excited to be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Poetry Out Loud national finals this week.
That is the kind of programming Trump and MAGA want dead.
Although not entirely on point, being more about the music industry, Ted Gioia's Are We Living in a Time of Cultural Collapse? is worth reading in this context. He thinks that Substack and Bandcamp will provide an independent ecosystem for creators. That is fine as far it goes, but these NEA cuts to independent publishers are an immediate threat to American literary life. People will stop publishing literature. Americans will become a stagnant pond of intellectual attainments.
I sharply criticize the purveyors of stagnation, and will continue to do so. But I’m confident that history is on our side.
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