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Hello Bakery Friends,
We're working on making the
Bakery webzine one of the best literary arts and culture publications on or off
the net and we could really use your help. You know my dear friends I am all
enthusiasm and fire, but these sadly, do not pay for the lights, the website,
broadband and other services which help keep Bakery going and growing. Neither
do they pay our wonderful and hard-working writers and so now I come to you; you
who have been so encouraging and helpful to Bakery in the past and ask you once
again to open your hearts (and your wallets) to give the Bakery a little boost.
Just $5
Five
dollars is not a lot of money, nowadays it barely buys a gallon of gas. Five
dollars is less than the cost of a movie ticket or an 'Extra Value' meal at a
fast food joint. But, what if we multiply that by 600? With a $5 donation from
600 people Bakery can do an awful lot. If 600 generous souls give $5, the
resulting windfall will pay Bakery's operating expenses for 3 months, allow the
Bakery to reserve spaces for 3 writers to attend workshops given by The Writing Salon, including one taught by former US poet laureate Billy Collins and pay for editing, development and
other expenses related to putting Single Servings in print! Giving a
great start to the career of a wonderful new writer, and allowing Bakery to give
other writers, painters, musicians, sculptors and poets opportunities for
education, inspiration and career development. A glorious snowball effect that
makes the Bakery's mission possible; to help create artists
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Give and Forward
So please go to our page on Fractured Atlas' (our
fiscal sponsor's
) website and make
a tax-deductible gift of $5, you can even give monthly! I know that a few of you
rock stars out there would love to contribute regularly, well now you can set up
an automatically recurring monthly
gift. Whether
or not you choose to give at this time, please help Bakery's mission by
forwarding this message to 2 art lovers whom you know would like to be a part of
helping a writer get into print. Come on let's start a tidal wave that will
sweep a promising writer's book into bookstores and begin a cycle that will
benefit artists for years to come!
Thank you all for your
good wishes and unstinting support during the past few years. I can't wait to
see what 2007 holds for you, for Bakery and for artists everywhere. Be well my
my dear friends.
Warmly,
Maya Jewell
Founder, Bakery of the
Poets
http://bakeryofthepoets.org
707.416.0868
Bakery of the Poets is a
sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Contributions in behalf of Bakery of the Poets maybe made payable to Fractured
Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law
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