mea culpa! the correct link to the UNO Press petition for Bill Lavender is
here:
https://www.change.org/petitions/uno-president-peter-fos-provost-louis-paradise-and-dean-susan-krantz-keep-bill-lavender-as-the-director-of-uno-press-4
Sign both!!
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Marthe Reed <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> After 15 years of service as an instructor at UNO, building a highly
> successful and self-supporting Low-Residency MFA program and rehabilitating
> UNO Press from 10 years of neglect, making it also self-sustaining and
> publishing some amazing contemporary poetry, translation, and scholarship,
> Bill Lavender has been given the sack under the guise of "budget cuts",
> though both the programs he participates in at SELF-SUSTAINING. You can
> read about the issue here, if you have not yet heard about it:
> http://www.facebook.com/SaveTheUnoLowResProgram
>
> Please sign and share these two petitions:
> Keep Bill Lavender as Director of UNO Press<https://www.change.org/petitions/uno-president-peter-fos-provost-louis-paradise-and-dean-susan-krantz-keep-bill-lavender-as-the-director-of-uno-press-4#>
>
>
> http://www.change.org/petitions/president-of-the-university-of-new-orleans-louisiana-maintain-bill-lavender-as-the-director-of-uno-s-low-residency-mfa
>
>
> And if you can, write letters to the President, Provost, and Dean of
> Liberal Arts at UNO:
>
> UNO President Peter Fos, [log in to unmask]
> UNO Provost, Louis Paradis, [log in to unmask]
> UNO Dean of Liberal Arts, Susan Krantz, [log in to unmask]
>
> Marthe
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> Marthe Reed
> Director of Creative Writing
> Assistant Professor
> English Department
> UL Lafayette
> 337-482-5503
> [log in to unmask]
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> http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mxr5675/home.html
>
> http://www.blackradishbooks.org/Reed.html
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> Poetry is made in a bed like love*
> *Its rumpled sheets are the dawn of things*
> *Poetry is made in the woods*
>
> --Andre Breton, "On the road to San Romano"
>
>
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Marthe Reed
Director of Creative Writing
Assistant Professor
English Department
UL Lafayette
337-482-5503
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http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mxr5675/home.html
http://www.blackradishbooks.org/Reed.html
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Poetry is made in a bed like love*
*Its rumpled sheets are the dawn of things*
*Poetry is made in the woods*
--Andre Breton, "On the road to San Romano"
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