In the Arts: Nonprofit Publisher Wins Second Pulitzer, Orlando Opera to Close
April 21, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
With Monday’s announcement of the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes, a small northwestern publisher is now home to two winners of one of literature’s most prestigious honors, reports the Associated Press.
W.S. Merwin was awarded the poetry Pulitzer for his collection The Shadow of Sirius, published by Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, Wash. The nonprofit organization also published the 2005 poetry winner Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser.
In other arts news, the 51-year-old Orlando Opera Company announced plans to close at the end of April, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The company has run a sizable deficit in recent years, even after zeroing out its endowment.
Also, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra has canceled its remaining concert of this season and its entire 2009-10 program due to dwindling donations, Bloomberg reports.
And The Dallas Morning News profiles the troubled Texas Ballet Theater, which faces potential collapse a year after announcing an ambitious plan to perform in China.
