Nonprofit Profile | I Think That I Shall Never See a Website as Lovely as 501(c)
One of the things I love about the nonprofit sector is its plethora of groups large and small dedicated to little more than providing mutual support among their respective members and raising awareness of the common activities in which they partake. Take, for example, poets. As an English major I certainly studied my share of poems, but nearly all of the work I read was at least a century old, and if we think of poetry today, it’s almost always in past terms. Yet there are contemporary poets doing terrific work, and while our cultural tastes have focused public attention away from the tragic figures of Byron, Shelley, and Keats and toward, well, the tragic figures of Britney and Lindsay and Paris, that doesn’t diminish the efforts of those penning lyrical, evocative stanzas today.
April is National Poetry Month, a perfect time for a shout-out to the Academy of American Poets, a 74-year-old organization founded "to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry." The academy administers several awards and collegiate prize programs, and its content-packed website is pretty nifty — not what you’d expect from a bunch of artsy-fartsy types dressed in black berets. (Please note: Stereotype for comedic effect only.) In an age of ever-coarsening public dialogue (much of which I enjoy, some of which I contribute to), it’s great to see such advocacy for a subtler, more articulate authorship. | 501(c)
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