Send Poets, Guns, and Money
Poet Land Foundation is a 501(c)3) nonprofit that exists because the gap in finding a partner to publish
and the financial support to create is where great art quietly stops.
We close that gap.
We see art as a revolution. And micro-grants are how we fund it. One small grant at a time until the world is more beautiful — $150–$1,500 in unrestricted funds for supplies, studio time, or project costs. These grants are here to help artists with the immediate financial support they need to create today.
We provide grants to creatives who need cash to make bad-ass art. Writers. Painters. Dancers. Sculptors. Musicians. Composers. Visual artists. Poets. Playwriters. If you make art and you need help, Poet Land is here to support you.
Micro-grants exist to cover the costs that stall a project: a semester of studio rent, a print run, travel to a residency, childcare during a writing sprint, materials for a show. Hell, maybe all you need is a new set of brushes. We got you. We don’t restrict how the money is spent, and we don’t ask for it back. We just want to give you the freedom to create without the worry of paying that one bill.
Poet Land Press — a non-profit publishing house for poetry, non-fiction, and literature that takes on work with meaning and something to say, not because it is commercial. And you keep your copyright. Always.
Poet Land Press publishes poetry, non-fiction, and literature — the kind of high-risk, high-value work that a commercial press might pass on precisely because it doesn’t have a clean sales comp. As a non-profit press, we don’t have to make that trade. We care about integrity, not margins.
How it works
– Editorially independent: an Editor-in-Chief and volunteer editorial board select what’s published, not some corporate overlord in a big, shiny building.
– We take no ownership stake in any work we publish. You wrote it. You own it. Period.
– 90% of all profits from Poet Land Press sales go back to the artists. Hey, we’re a nonprofit. We can’t steal from you.
– We format both print and e-book editions and manage the publishing process and pay your quarterly. It’s as simple as that.
Turn your dollars into art...Not taxes
Our support for artists doesn’t come from institutions. It comes from you. People who love art. People who value creative freedom. You know, donors. Most of your support comes from small donations of $50 to $100. But when we bring together a community of art lovers and readers, we give artists the freedom they need to create.
Every dollar in support of the Poet Land Foundation goes to our Micro-Grant Program and to our mission. $0.90 of every dollar goes to artists. We don’t have a big overhead or fancy offices.
We have a group of overworked volunteers and an espresso machine. And hope. A lot of hope. And sometimes hope is enough to fund a revolution.
