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We are making a second request to you because your employer has a matching gift program. A matching gift will increase your support and strengthen our mission. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today.

In 2007, we featured an impressive array of literary talents: Chimamanda Adichie, winner of the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize; Suheir Hammad; Walter Mosley; and  Patricia Smith, winner of the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize among others. We dedicated an entire issue to the living legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The issue featured the writings of Kalamu ya Salaam, Asali Solomon, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Haki Madhubuti. In other issues we interviewed literary legends, Lucille Clifton, winner of the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and William Demby, 2006 winner of The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award. Our ambition is to support and critique work produced by writers of African and Latino descent.

Under the auspices of the Literary Freedom Project, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt arts organization, which publishes Mosaic, we've been able to secure grant money, which helps defer some costs. But we need your support. Besides marking our 10th anniversary, this upcoming year will hold unimagined promise: a continued commitment to literature and poetry; a citywide reading series, which will culminate with a literary festival; and the creation of an education program that will use each issue of Mosaic as the basis for a new literary arts curriculum for high school students.

With such an ambitious agenda your support is crucial. Please take a quick moment to click the appropriate link below and donate the amount of your choice. Through your employer's matching gift program you can double your tax-deductible support and make it possible for the Literary Freedom Project to expand its programming.

Thank you
Ron Kavanaugh

Executive Director
Literary Freedom Project
Mosaic Literary Magazine

718.530.9132

 
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