Might 9, 2025, 11:08am Final week, a whole bunch of publishers, theatre firms, symphonies, and group arts applications abruptly misplaced funding. Beloved establishments from the Bay Space to Harlem have been rudely knowledgeable of canceled NEA grants final week. And as my colleague James Folta reported in depth, the listing of affected arts organizations solely […]

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 […]