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2020 Achievements

• Curated Poetic License, a poetry-inspired art exhibit

• Participated in inaugural Upstate Arts Weekend

• Launched our charitable arm: AIM Higher, Inc.

• Kicked off our Private Mentoring program

• Launched high-quality, low-cost Independent Study workshops & sliding scale Zoom workshops

• Was nominated for three Chronogrammies (award for The Hudson Valley’s most outstanding establishments, nominated by its residents)

• Held 22 online workshops serving 220 poets

• Supported 15 teaching artists

• Hosted six socially-distanced poetry workshops at the barn from July-December

• Added hundreds of additional books to our lending library

• Hosted our first resident

• Held our first Zoom reading for the winter solstice

• Reached over 10,000 Facebook followers

  
  

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The Poetry Barn is a fiscally-sponsored project of AIM Higher, Inc, a 501(c)(3) organization, making your donation fully tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. We are grateful for each and every gift, and will direct it toward community events and capacity building.

You may also mail your tax-deductible donations made out to AIM Higher/The Poetry Barn to:

The Poetry Barn
1693 NY-28A
West Hurley, NY 12491

THANK YOU!

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