International Poetry Forum announces its last season

We saw this coming as Dr. Hazo has many Sunnyhill fans. He is a past speaker on Sundays.

International Poetry Forum announces its last season International Poetry Forum announces its last season
Thursday, February 12, 2009
By Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Since 1966, the International Poetry Forum stayed true to its mission to bring the world's best poets to Pittsburgh, but its mission is now over.
Founder and director Samuel Hazo last night announced that this, the 43rd season, will be its last, a victim of the nation's financial downturn.
'It looks like it's our last year,' Dr. Hazo said following his poetry reading in Oakland last night. 'The reasons are financial.'
Dr. Hazo cited the forum's inability to find funding from philanthropic foundations and 'without such funding, the International Poetry Forum is unable to continue.'
Money from the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust launched Dr. Hazo's organization in 1966 with a reading by Archibald MacLeish, then one of America's best known poets.