Pittsburgh Poetry Forum and N.Y. Dance Group Shut Down
February 18, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the city’s International Poetry Forum is closing after 43 years.
The literary group, which held readings by international luminaries such as Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, and John Updike held its farewell event last week. It has seen its stock portfolio plummet by 25 percent, while equally hard-hit foundations have cut back on grants.
New York’s 77-year-old New Dance Group has also shuttered, according to The New York Times.
The dance-education organization, founded in the Depression, ran out of money and can no longer afford rent at its building, its chairman, Marvin Preston, says. While staff members have been dismissed, the group’s board will remain in place and seek funds to preserve its archives and mount exhibits.
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