The No Mountains Poetry Project was a unique and popular interdisciplinary program of workshops, live readings, recordings, and letterpress broadsides located in Evanston, Illinois during the 1970s. Its objectives were to bring poets and writers together with academic and non-academic audiences in non-traditional settings, to encourage poetry-as-performance, and to collaborate with the book and poster arts.
24-616: The project was the result of a collaboration between TriQuarterly magazine, Amazingrace Coffeehouse , The Whole Earth Center , and the Ravine Press . The series featured leading practitioners in a wide variety of styles. Diane di Prima and Anne Waldman represented the Beat tradition. Ed Dorn was a member of the Black Mountain poets . John Hawkes was a proponent of postmodern literature . Robert Coover and William H. Gass worked in
48-410: A blog, and graphic art. The current faculty advisor for TriQuarterly is Natasha Trethewey . The TriQuarterly book imprint is published by Northwestern University Press . TriQuarterly journal was established in 1958 as an undergraduate magazine remembered now for publishing the work of young Saul Bellow . It was reshaped in 1964 by Charles Newman as an innovative national publication aimed at
72-516: A magazine of arts and ideas. It also publishes Arts & Letters Daily . In 1957, Corbin Gwaltney, founder and editor of the alumni magazine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , joined with editors from magazines of several other colleges and universities for an editorial project to investigate issues in higher education in perspective. The meeting occurred on the day the first Sputnik circled
96-497: A news publication. He and other board members of EPE met to plan a new publication which would be called The Chronicle of Higher Education . The Chronicle of Higher Education was officially founded in 1966 by Corbin Gwaltney, and its first issue was launched in November 1966. Although it was meant for those involved in higher education, one of the founding ideas was that the general public had very little knowledge about what
120-413: A sophisticated and diverse literary readership. Northwestern University Press , the university's scholarly publishing arm, operated the journal. The journal was so named because its original form as a student magazine was published in each of the three quarters of Northwestern's academic year, and not in the fourth quarter, summer. On September 21, 2009, Northwestern University announced three changes to
144-581: Is required to read some articles. The Chronicle is based in Washington, D.C. , and is a major news service covering U.S. academia. It is published every weekday online and appears weekly in print except for every other week in May, June, July, and August and the last three weeks in December. In print, The Chronicle is published in two sections: Section A with news, section B with job listings, and The Chronicle Review,
168-683: The New York Public Library Special Collections and the Northwestern University Library Archives, Amazingrace Coffeehouse collection. TriQuarterly TriQuarterly is a name shared by an American literary magazine and a series of books. The journal is published twice a year under the aegis of the Northwestern University Department of English and features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, literary essays, reviews,
192-493: The 1970s, the Chronicle was attracting enough advertising to become self-sufficient, and in 1978 the board of EPE agreed to sell the newspaper to its editors. EPE sold the Chronicle to the editors for $ 2,000,000 in cash and $ 500,000 in services that Chronicle would provide to EPE. Chronicle went from a legal non-profit status to a for-profit company. This sale shifted the focus of non-profit EPE to K-12 education. Inspired by
216-536: The Earth, October 4, 1957, so the Moonshooter project was formed as a supplement on higher education for the college magazines. The college magazine editors promised 60 percent of one issue of their magazine to finance the supplement. The first Moonshooter Report was 32 pages long and titled American Higher Education, 1958 . They sold 1.35 million copies to 15 colleges and universities. By the project's third year, circulation
240-675: The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award . The New York Times has called TriQuarterly "perhaps the preeminent journal for literary fiction" in America. Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education is an American newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals, including staff members and administrators. A subscription
264-788: The TriQuarterly imprint, which is edited by Parneshia Jones . The physical aspect of many literary journals today derives from the creation of the TriQuarterly design in 1964, credited in The New Yorker as "a venerated publication (it is credited with having pioneered the literary-quarterly format)." By publishing a combination of general issues and occasional special issues, such as for Vladimir Nabokov on his seventieth birthday ; Prose for Borges ; and The Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History , TriQuarterly quickly became one of
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#1733092242420288-496: The authors’s books and the broadsides. The limited edition broadsides were printed by The Ravine Press on a No. 4 Vandercook proof press on Arches paper . The color illustrations were done by Amazingrace using the hand-pulled screen printing process. Print runs varied from 150-199. Advisors were The Art Institute of Chicago on paper and ink, and the Newberry Library on typography. Complete sets are available for viewing at
312-504: The flame.” Another wrote that it highlighted "a harrowing trend in publishing and in academia: the replacement of experienced, paid professionals with under- (or un-) paid casual labor—whether bloggers, graduate students, or adjuncts who often receive neither benefits nor job security." After the university reassigned TriQuarterly journal to the Department of English, Northwestern University Press continued to acquire and publish books in
336-534: The increasingly predictable political divide." The New Republic , The Nation , Reason , and The American Prospect were among the finalists in the category. In 2012, reporter Jack Stripling won a special citation for "Beat reporting", from the Education Writers Association (EWA), as well as sharing a second-place Single-Topic News, Series or Feature award with Tom Bartlett and other Chronicle reporters for their seven-part series, "College for
360-609: The journal. First, rather than continue under the aegis of Northwestern University Press with paid, professional editors, the journal would become a student-edited publication in 2010. Second, the print edition would cease and the journal would become digital only. Third, the journal would move from the press to the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program (part of Northwestern University's Department of English). The first online edition of TriQuarterly Online , Issue 138, continuing
384-462: The literary world at the change. One writer described the literary community as "surprised, saddened, shocked" by the change as well as "dismayed" that the journal's editor and associate editor would not be included in the move. Jeffrey Lependorf, executive director of the Council of Literary Magazine and Presses, said the change "doesn’t feel like the passing of the torch; it feels like the extinguishing of
408-572: The model established by the Chronicle , and with the support of the Carnegie Corporation and other philanthropies, EPE founded Education Week in September 1981. In 1993, the Chronicle was one of the first newspapers to appear on the Internet, as a Gopher service. The Chronicle grossed $ 33 million in advertising revenues and $ 7 million in circulation revenues in 2003. Over the years,
432-500: The most widely admired and important American literary journals. In 1990, Northwestern University Press established a series of new works of fiction and poetry under the imprint name TriQuarterly. Writers such as Nikky Finney , Christine Schutt , A. E. Stallings , Patricia Smith , Bruce Weigl , and Angela Jackson have published titles in the imprint, including works that have won the National Book Award , Whiting Awards ,
456-594: The numbered issue sequence to show continuity from the print edition, launched on July 5, 2010 at the website: Triquarterly.org. The journal is currently housed in the English Department and operates under the aegis of the Litowitz MFA+MA Graduate Program in Creative Writing and English. Periodicals as varied at the Chronicle of Higher Education and The New Yorker expressed the displeasure of
480-744: The paper has been a finalist and winner of several journalism awards. In 2005, two special reports – on diploma mills and plagiarism – were selected as finalists in the reporting category for a National Magazine Award . It was a finalist for the award in general excellence every year from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, its reporter Carlin Romano was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in criticism. In 2007, The Chronicle won an Utne Reader Independent Press Award for political coverage. In its award citation, Utne called The Chronicle Review "a fearless, free-thinking section where academia's best and brightest can take their gloves off and swing with abandon at both sides of
504-565: The style that has come to be known as metafiction . And Charles Bukowski has been characterized as a rock star “pulp” writer. Poet essayist, and short-story writer Tess Gallagher and poet Laura Jensen provided strong voices from the Pacific Northwest. Several of the No Mountains Poetry Project participants went on to achieve Poet Laureate status. Diane di Prima was appointed Poet Laureate of San Francisco, Mark Strand
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#1733092242420528-540: Was going on in higher education and the real issues involved. Originally, it did not accept any advertising and did not have any staff-written editorial opinions. It was supported by grants from the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation . Later on in its history, advertising would be accepted, especially for jobs in higher education, and this would allow the newspaper to be financially independent. By
552-595: Was over three million for the supplement. In 1959, Gwaltney left Johns Hopkins Magazine to become the first full-time employee of the newly created Editorial Projects for Education (EPE), which was later renamed "Editorial Projects in Education", starting in an office in his apartment in Baltimore and later moving to an office near the Johns Hopkins campus in Baltimore. He realized that higher education would benefit from
576-586: Was the fourth US Poet Laureate and Galway Kinnell was Poet Laureate for Vermont. The workshops took place on the campus of Northwestern University , primarily for the academic community. The performances for the larger community took place either at Amazingrace Coffeehouse (845 Main St., Evanston, IL) or the Whole Earth Center (530 Dempster St., Evanston, IL). The Charles Bukowski reading sold out all 400 seats available. The Whole Earth Center served as distributor for
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