Cheering you on!
Total donors: 6
Remaining in the fund: $200
Aid given to poets: $985.50
Poets helped: 13
(last update: March 14, 2022)

POMPOM is currently closed. We will reopen when we reach $500 in the fund again!

POMPOM is a communal fund providing manuscript submission fees to poets who need assistance.

It will also, soon, serve a much more important purpose: a free public repository of successful application materials—for fellowships, residencies, jobs, sample syllabi, etc.—from artists and writers, for artists and writers. If you'd like to help build the database—especially if you're a strong programmer—please get in touch. Contact info is at the bottom of this page.

POMPOM is provided 100% for free to the community, in the spirit of mutual aid and dismantling historic + ongoing systemic barriers to access, which disproportionally affect those already most marginalized by our institutions. It is also an experiment in trust. If you can afford to donate, please do so; if you can afford submission fees, please do not request assistance from the fund.

PSA:

Reopening will be announced via my newsletter. Sorry if this is annoying, but I don't want to have yet another account to administrate, and simplifying these systems allows me to spend more time on meaningful work.

Grant recipients, R1: Fargo Tbakhi. Shilo Niziolek, Sam Moe, Lupita Eyde-Tucker, Auzin Ahmadi, and several poets who wish to remain anonymous. Thank you to everyone who donated! A log of payments (started partway through the project), is available here.

Get help:
POMPOM is currently closed. We will re-open when we reach $500 in the fund again.
We are happy to assist poets in need with submission fees for manuscript publications (whether full-length or chapbook). Emily Stoddard is currently managing requests; please contact her via the instructions on this page. We look forward to helping you!

Donate:
Contribute to the fund. Please put POMPOM in the notes so I know to allocate the money for this! 100% of donations will be given to poets to help with submission fees. Donations are anonymous by default.

Chime in:
Share your ideas about how the fund should be managed or distributed. I welcome your feedback.

Ideas, suggestions, feedback, etc. can be sent to POMPOM founder Annelyse Gelman at annelysegelman [[[at]]] gmail.com.