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PSI PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT |
PSI is an arts organization composed of talented and creative individuals, but in order to obtain funding for the projects and events that support our Mission and to continue providing poets with a forum for presenting their art, we must also be able to show the organizationGÃÃs financial viability and ability to deliver programming.
Funders are no longer willing to hand out money to the arts without a method for determining the effectiveness of the programming being delivered. Therefore, PSI must be able to meet monitoring and evaluation criteria for funding. To this end, tools and documents have been created that provide a systematic method of ongoing monitoring and evaluation. This shows funders that PSI is ready and able to deliver on its promises when seeking funding.
You can help provide us with important data by filling out a participant survey at a future PSI event.
In addition, in order to enhance the organizationGÃÃs ability to manage awards and strengthen positioning with potential funders, PSI now has a centralized system of grants management. All PSI grants will be submitted, processed, and managed by the Development Director.
PSI has also been registered for electronic grant application submission for NEA and other federal funding opportunities. This will allow the organization to monitor and track and manage grants in a more efficient manner than in the past.
The DD reports directly to the EC. However, news articles, like this one, will be posted periodically to keep the membership at-large informed of PSIGÃÃs development status.
For now, here is PSIGÃÃs Grants Development Status as of July 20, 2006
Pending Awards: None
Grant Applications in Process:
NPS: 2007 NEA Presenting Grant
Video Equipment Request: Private Foundation PreApplication |
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Ninety-Year-Old Lewis Wins Vermillion Literary Project Slam Bout |
Ninety-year-old Elizabeth Lewis from Yankton, South Dakota won the Vermillion Literary Project poetry slam at the Coffee Shop Gallery in Vermillion, South Dakota on Thursday, June 29, 2006. Lewis, an experienced poet who had never slammed before, said about her win, "It made an OLD woman feel almost thirty again."
The VLP held two rounds, with poets' scores from the two rounds added together. After hearing Lewis read during the first round, slam regular and Vermillion resident Tony LaPointe commented, shaking his head and smiling, "I don't know if I can beat the old lady." LaPointe earned second place, with Krista Bruggeman of Lennox coming in third.
Traditionally, the VLP slam winner performs a third poem while wearing the infamous VLP gladiator slam belt. Lewis was too exhausted to come up to the microphone again, so slam master Doug Murano brought the wireless mic to her table, and she performed a brief, additional piece. VLP faculty advisor Michelle Rogge Gannon noted, "We did not require Elizabeth to put on the slam belt, as we felt the heavy-duty leather belt might be somewhat oppressive for ninety-year-old bones."
Nine poets participated in the slam, performing for an attentive audience that included students from the University of South Dakota, Vermillion/area residents, and a group of teachers from the Dakota Writing Project. The Vermillion Literary Project has the only slam venue in the state officially recognized by Poetry Slam, Inc. The VLP has been holding slams regularly since October 2002. Elliot Harmon, the VLP's first ever slam winner and a frequent participant in the VLP slams, later went on to represent Omaha in the 2004 National Poetry Slam.
The VLP challenges other slam organizations to come up with slam winners--or even slam participants--older than Elizabeth Lewis (age ninety).
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A Poetry Blog and Podcast Tour of Europe |
How Poetry Can Change Your Life : a blog and podcast poetry tour of Europe with a poetry library in tow!WeGÃÃre interviewing poets on why on earth they write poetry . . . WhatGÃÃs it for? Who reads it? Who writes it? Plus The Poetry Cubicle presents . . . A selection of English language poetry pamphlets, books, GÃÿzines & paraphernalia to borrow FREE for a limited time period.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Text the word POETRY to +447797805300 (text charged@yr network rate). WeGÃÃll send you a free text back telling you where the Poetry Librarian is currently installed in Europe, so if sheGÃÃs in your vicinity you can turn up, fill out a library card and read some of our fantastic poetry!
WHATGÃÃS GOING ON?
As well as providing a Library Service, The Poetry Librarian will also be available for poetry readings (spontaneous or otherwise) and performing the installation GÃÿActivate The PoetGÃà as well as being available to answer your poetical queries. The Librarian is also conducting interviews with poets round Europe: these can be downloaded as podcasts from our blog. The Librarian is also surveying the state of poetry and poetry readers in Europe and will be creating what we hope may be EuropeGÃÃs first Exquisite Corpse poem. You can follow our LibrarianGÃÃs tour of Europe on our blog: http://www.europeconverses.blogspot.com where you can comment on the tour, leave a question about poetry youGÃÃd like answered, download audio including poems from European poets, interviews with poets, interviews with poetry readers and more! In the meantime, if you have a Poetry Emergency you know who to call.
For further information email:
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or see: HTTP://WWW.EUROPECONVERSES.BLOGSPOT.COM
The Podcast Interviews and Blog will feature: poets at the Ruigoord Festival of Tongues (Amsterdam) and installation of the Poetry Library; poets in Berlin and installation of the Poetry Library at the British Council, Berlin; interviews with Twisted Spoon poets (Prague); interview with Christian Ide Hintze, poet and director of the Vienna Poetry Academy, (Vienna); interviews with poets from the Budapest Bardroom and installation of the Poetry Library at Treehugger bookstore (Budapest) PLUS MANY MORE POETS, POETRY READERS, and generally interested folk!
Tune in . . . Or follow us on our blog and leave a message!
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The Arkansas Grand slam 2006 is closing in!. Registration information available on www.thepoetsloft.com. Big bucks lots of prizes and loads of fun. There are only 40 available slots. Dont miss this event hosted by The Poets loft in beautiful Historic Hot Springs National Park Arkansas. Guest emcees Mark Kelly Smith and Ray McNiece are a combination that is sure to make this an event to remember. Hope to see you all there. |
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