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
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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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