GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The New Yorker
Dennis Nurkse is an author of nine books of poetry (published as ‘D. Nurkse’). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry, the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and other venues.
Featuring Dennis Nurske, a Tanne Foundation award recipient.
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On love, on grief, on ev’ry human thing,
Time sprinkles Lethe’s water with his wing.
With Walter Savage Landor’s two-line poem, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky illustrated the relevance of poetry as a form of human expression as elemental as music or dance. The theme of this funder briefing, “Poetry in Hard Times,” demonstrated how the arts can flourish in an economic depression. Continue Reading »
The Parker Foundation focuses its grantmaking exclusively on Lowell, the fourth largest city in Massachusetts. Lowell was established in 1826 as the first planned industrial city in America. With the decline of the textile industry, followed by the decline of high tech, it experienced an economic depression throughout much of the 20th century. Inspired civic leadership and an influx of immigrant population (including the second largest Cambodian population in America) have given the city a new life. A recent positive development has been the growth of a creative economy, spearheaded by the relocation of numerous artists to the city.
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