[New-Poetry] Wallace Stevens Walk...Hartford CT, donation solicitation

[JforJames at aol.com]

The Friends (& Enemies) of Wallace Stevens have  
ordered the first 3 of  the 13 stones comprising sections
of 'Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird'. The granite stones
will grace the route known as The Wallace Stevens Walk, 
running from Stevens' workplace, the historic Hartford Insurance
Company building on Asylum Avenue, to his former home on 
Westerly Terrace. 
 
If anyone wants to see a drawing of what the first stones will look
like, please let me know, and I'll email you the file. (In a few
weeks we should have an actual photo to share.)
I don't think a jpeg file will get thru listserv software intact. 

We are looking for donors, of course, to help us
pay for and put stones 4-13 in place along The Walk.
We'll accept any amount...but the giving levels are:
$    50   Letter
$  100   Word
$  500   Line
$1000   Stanza
$2500  Stone Blackbird
 
Richard Wilbur, Helen Vendler, J.D. McClatchy, Galway Kinnell,
Bob Holman, John Taggart, Elaine Equi, Susan Howe, Jonathan  Galassi
are among the literary luminaries who have donated to this  project. 
There might be few people on this list who have given,  and we
thank you for that. You might want to think about increasing your gift  to 
the next level?
 
Donations at the Stanza and Stone Blackbird level get you
a very lovely handprinted broadside of 'The Plain Sense of Things' or 
a cute little hand-carved & hand-painted blackbird done by 
the artist Dona Dalton. 
 
 
Checks payable to "The Friends of Wallace Stevens", a not-for-profit 
organization, and are tax deductible.

 
Jim  Finnegan
18 Woodrow Street
West Hartford CT 06107
860-561-8696  x302
860-521-0358 home
860-508-2810  cell

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