Lycoming College Publication
BRILLIANT CORNERS Awarded Grant
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded Lycoming College’s publication Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature with a $10,000 grant to support the marketing and promotion of the only national literary journal dedicated to jazz-related literature.
Rep. Don Sherwood (R-Pa.) and Dana Gioia, chairman of the NEA, will be on hand for the formal presentation of area NEA grants at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10 at the Community Arts Center, 220 West Fourth Street, Williamsport.
“The importance of the NEA grant cannot be over-emphasized,” said Brilliant Corners founder and editor Dr. Sascha Feinstein. “Brilliant Corners remains a handsome and prestigious publication, but, since its inception, we’ve lacked funds to advertise the journal. In a single, extraordinary gesture, that hole has been filled.”
Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature was founded in 1996 by Dr. Feinstein, co-director of the Creative Writing Program at Lycoming College. The collected interviews in Brilliant Corners will be published next year in Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature (Indiana University Press).
Dr. Feinstein’s poetry
collection, Misterioso, won the Hayden Carruth Award from Copper
Canyon Press, and individual poems have appeared in publications such as
American Poetry Review, North American Review, Georgia Review,
and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet.
He is the author of two related critical books—Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present and A Bibliographic Guide to Jazz Poetry—and his essays have appeared in publications such as The Southern Review, African American Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. With Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, he co-edited The Jazz Poetry Anthology and its companion volume The Second Set.
An avid saxophonist, Dr. Feinstein holds a Ph.D. in English from the Indiana Univ., Bloomington.
Founded in 1812 in Williamsport, Lycoming College is a liberal arts and sciences college dedicated to the under-graduate education of 1,500 students. The College, one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation, is recognized as one of 212 national liberal arts colleges in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.
The Community Arts Center was also awarded the Challenge America: Reaching Every Community (CAREC) grant in the amount of $10,000 to support the 40th anniversary Williamsport Symphony Orchestra Opening Gala Oct. 10.
http://www.Lycoming.edu/BrilliantCorners
