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...things, methadone, Cialis and Prozac. But Lilly's reclusive great-granddaughter Ruth is apparently more interested in poems than in Prozac. In 2001, when she decided to give away part of her fortune in charitable donations, she singled out a venerable but impoverished little literary magazine called Poetry. Her gift came to around $200 million...
Money and poetry rarely have much to do with each other, especially in such a stunningly large quantity. Suddenly the small staff of Poetry was swimming in cash--it's the literary equivalent of the Beverly Hillbillies. Now they're using Lilly's gift to mount a comeback for poetry. But can money really bring a dying art form back to life? And is it just possible that poetry was better off where...
...difficult, on the other hand, for a donor, especially one without vast sums to give, to restrict his or her gift to benefit undergraduates, especially if he or she wants class credit for it. Gifts that receive class credit are publicly recognized and added to the total given by members of their class, which is prominently displayed in the annual report and announced the afternoon of commencement. Nevertheless, only five options within the Harvard College Fund have traditionally counted for class credit: unrestricted, financial aid, libraries, faculty support, and graduate fellowships. Only recently has an “undergraduate life...
...Johnston is the author of the acclaimed short fiction collection “Corpus Christi.” He has another book to be published shortly by Random House that he says deals partly with a violin prodigy who has lost his gift and partly with a single mother who is helping to raise a stranded baby whale...
...appropriate gift for the man who turned out to be the catalyst for the program’s final conception...