AWP News http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm News from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Begins Bankruptcy Proceedings http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#HmhBankruptcy http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#HmhBankruptcy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, announced it would initiate Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in order to eliminate $3.1 billion of debt. Mon, 14 May 2012 16:25:00 EST A Museum for John Updike http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#UpdikeHouse http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#UpdikeHouse The John Updike Society has signed an agreement for purchasing the childhood home of John Updike for $200,000 as part of a plan to turn the home into a museum. Mon, 14 May 2012 16:25:00 EST Maurice Sendak Dies http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#Sendak http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#Sendak The author of Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, died on May 8 in a Connecticut hospital after suffering a stroke a few days previously. Tue, 08 May 2012 15:29:00 EST Poet Joshua Clover and 11 UC Davis Students Face Jail and $1 Million in Damages http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#DavisDozen http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#DavisDozen For their role in protests in February that led to the close of a US Bank on UC Davis's campus, poet and professor Joshua Clover and eleven students now face up to eleven years each in prison and $1 million in damages. Mon, 07 May 2012 16:44:00 EST CLMP on Digital Publishing and How Data Collection May Save Arts Funding http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#Clmp http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#Clmp Jeffrey Lependorf, CLMP's Executive Director, spared a few minutes for an interview with AWP to discuss CLMP's recent endorsement of Vook, an online digital publishing tool, and its current projects for providing greater assistance to its members and to arts advocates in general. Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43:00 EST Problems with Poetry on the Small Screen http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#ePoetry http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#ePoetry Copper Canyon Press received a $100,000 grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation earlier this year with the expressed purpose of producing e-books and working to improve the quality of poetry on e-reader devices. Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43:00 EST A New Study Finds Financial Aid Ineffective for Student Success http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#Studentaid http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#Studentaid A study by the American Institutes for Research found that financial aid given to community college students in the state of Louisiana had 'no significant impact' on their academic success. Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43:00 EST Columbia University Receives Big Gift to Fund MFA Students http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#Henfield http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#Henfield Columbia University received a gift of $800,000 from the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation in late March of this year. Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43:00 EST Novelist Doris Betts Has Died http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#DorisBetts http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/newscurrent.htm#DorisBetts Doris Betts, author of six novels and three short story collections, died of lung cancer at 79, at her home near Pittsboro, North Carolina on April 21, 2012. Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:47:00 EST