Max Garland Named Wisconsin's New Poet Laureate

UW-Eau Claire Department of English

Wisconsin State Journal, 1/3/2013

Excerpt:   Garland, now charged with promoting poetry across the state, will receive $2,000 and two weeklong residencies at Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts in Mineral Point. The poet laureate position, eliminated from the governor's office in early 2011, is now supported by the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission under the stewardship of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.

Winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center 

Open Competition for 2006

Lester Library of Rome Fundraising Progress Report

Lester Public Library of Rome

Rome library raises $180K toward expansion. (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, 1/3/2013)

Fundraising goal:  $900,000

Current facility

• Constructed in 2001
• 2,500 square feet
• Capacity:  30

Addition will add 6,000 square feet.

Related posts:
Fundraising campaign for a much-needed building expansion. (5/2/2012)
Home Town Rome Players raise $6,000 for library building expansion fund.  (10/28/2011)
Library needs more room.  (6/24/2011)
Netflix, ebooks, and library building projects, part 61.  (6/20/2012)

Rome Home Town Players raise $1,000+ for library expansion.   (10/30/2009)

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