Expensive Reader,

Late Friday evening, Electrical Literature—together with not less than 40 different literary arts organizations— acquired a discover from the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts that our 2025 grant has been terminated. The rationale given was that our work doesn’t “mirror the nation’s wealthy inventive heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President.” This morning, the NEA’s literary arts employees introduced their final day could be Might 30. 

It is a transparently autocratic effort to dismantle the nation’s most vital arts granting group and to broadly undermine inventive progress. After threatening so many, it’s no coincidence that Trump has turned his assaults to the humanities.

Artistic expression is the lifeblood that vivifies a free and democratic tradition. Trump is obsessive about a heritage and legacy of his personal creativeness. For him, literature is ahead going through and due to this fact harmful. Each story, even in regards to the previous, is a brand new story. Each story a author tells is one Trump can’t management.

The NEA has supported a whole lot of publishers, 600 translators, and three,800 writers. The tales advised on account of that assist will stay on. Electrical Literature will proceed to publish culturally enriching tales in regards to the previous, current, and future with honesty and coronary heart. Please assist our work.

Sincerely, 

Halimah Marcus

Govt Director, Electrical Literature

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