National Endowment for the Arts

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Through its literature, a nation expresses its hopes and fears, and tells its stories to its citizens and to the world. The National Endowment for the Arts is committed to providing opportunities for Americans to make literature a more important part of their daily lives. The Arts Endowment seeks to sustain and nurture a multiplicity of American literary traditions by:  Ensuring that literary presses and magazines, community-based organizations, and national literary centers complement the trade publishing sector in the shaping of contemporary American letters; Supporting organizations that nurture emerging and mid-career writers and provide assistance to nascent literary organizations; Supporting endeavors to provide America’s readers with direct access to contemporary writers.