Project Grant TT27146520

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Verse Video Education, Inc. $299,765 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to support the completion of five episodes in Season 4 of the public television show Poetry in America. Titled "More Perfect Union," these episodes will focus on American poems that examine the nation's shared narratives. Each episode will profile a work representing different American styles, traditions, and...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $599,998 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Verse Video Education, Inc., a woman-owned non-profit organization, to support the production of Season Five of the public television series "Poetry in America." The grant will fund the creation of eight documentary-style episodes that explore American poetry and its connections to national narratives, cultural traditions, and social...

The Library of America, in partnership with the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, will produce 400 Years of Latino Poetry, a $1,698,898 project grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The initiative includes publishing a groundbreaking anthology of Latino poetry spanning 400 years; public programs and conversations with literary scholars, poets, and historians across...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) provides $274,000.00 to Mid Atlantic Arts, Inc., a Baltimore-based non-profit organization, to support the coordination and administration of the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Out Loud national finals. The award period runs from July 1, 2024, to October 31, 2025. As a prominent national poetry recitation...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $304,885 Project Grant to PRX Inc., a non-profit media company, to produce a seven-episode podcast series titled "Division Street Revisited." This series, plus a 1-hour opening special for public radio, will revisit Studs Terkel's seminal oral history collection "Division Street: America" by interviewing the children and grandchildren of the original participants. The podcast will explore how themes of race, work,...

This $267,247 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) will fund the production of a 90-minute documentary film titled "MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD." The film, a co-production between WNET and Pieshake Pictures, will explore the writing, life, and legacy of American poet, essayist, and teacher Mary Oliver (1935-2019). The project aims to create a cinematic portrait of Oliver...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to Stone Soup Productions Inc., a woman-owned non-profit media production company. The grant will support the production of the second and third seasons of "The People's Recorder," a national podcast series inspired by the 1930s Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. The podcast aims to explore the legacy,...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $227,420 under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program to the Linguistic Society of America to support the creation and distribution of 20 original podcast episodes and 3 mini-series episodes on the history of African American English through the Subtitle podcast. The podcast episodes will range between 20 to 25 minutes and will be distributed through Subtitle's online and social media platforms, with...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $310,536 Project Grant to the State Historical Society of Colorado, operating as the Colorado History Museum, to support the production of the Lost Highways podcast. Under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164), the funding will allow the production of Season Three of the podcast series between May 2021 and May 2022. Each episode explores connections between Western history and current events through...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) will support the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in developing a prototype website that increases understanding of African American life in early rural New England. Specifically, the website will focus on Lucy Terry Prince, the first documented African American poet, illuminating her life from captivity in Africa circa 1726 to enslavement in...