Career Development Grant
Career Development Grant
Promotion of my new poetry collection, "Flucht"
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Kate Fitzgerald: Program Director North Shore Music Association, writer; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Candace LaCosse: North House Folk School instructor, leatherwork designer and crafter; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Paula Gudmundson: Music professor at University of Minnesota-Duluth, flutist; Kayla Schubert: arts administrator, curatorial assistant; Walt Raschick: music director at KUWS; Pamela Davis: artist, weaver, instructor.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Goal: Expand readership of new book, Flucht, beyond the state of Minnesota and network for publication of second book. Measurable Outcomes: 1. Sell 75 additional books outside of the state and 10 at each Minneapolis reading. 2. Increase visits to website. 3. Submit video poems for publication to at least 5 journals. 4. Network with potential presses for next book, Complicated Warding. 1. Track number of copies Flucht sold at each reading at each different location. 2. Track increase in traffic to author website after Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference and each reading. 3. Track submissions/publication of video poems. 4. Track addition of number of social media and press connections.
1. Sold 52 additional books outside of the state and 17 at both Twin City readings combined. 2. There was a 12% increase in website visits after attending AWP in Washington DC. Additionally, when I began submitting new manuscript, "Complicated Warding," there was a visit increase of 20%. However, I also had poems published in November, which may have also increased visits to website. 3. I did not create and submit video poems. However, I have uploaded sound files of five poems to my website per the grant change agreement. Please see amendment. I will track the next six months and see if this increases website visits. 4. I did network with potential presses for next book, Complicated Warding, at AWP, and made numerous contacts with presses such at Press 53, Tinderbox Editions, and White Pine Press. I also established contacts with well-known journals for the submission of individual poems and have had poems appear in two of them.
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