As Official Bookseller, Borders Books and Music Contributes to the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival.Business & Consumer/Retail Editors ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2002 Borders Books and Music(R) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ), a leading global retailer of books, music and movies, served as the official bookseller for the fourth time since 1996 at the biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival The biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival is the largest poetry event in North America. These four-day celebrations of poetry have been called “poetry heaven” by the 1995-1997 U.S. , held September 19-22, 2002, at Waterloo Village Waterloo Village is a restored 19th Century canal town in Sussex County in northwestern New Jersey and was approximately the half-way point in the roughly 102-mile (165 km) trip along the Morris Canal, which ran from Jersey City (across the Hudson River from New York City) to , near Stanhope stan·hope n. A light, open, horse-drawn carriage with one seat and two or four wheels. [After the Reverend Fitzroy Stanhope (1787-1864), British clergyman.] Noun 1. , N.J. As in previous years, Borders has pledged a portion of the proceeds from sales to the Festival; the 2002 donation totals over $30,000, underscoring the most successful year yet. Borders supports the Festival's effort to continue to provide a venue at which poetry assumes a place at the center of the public's imaginative and emotional life. "Borders always looks forward to participating in the Dodge Festival to serve as official bookseller and offer visitors and poets easy on-site access to a varied selection of poetry titles," said Mike Spinozzi, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Borders Group. "By giving back a portion of proceeds generated by Festival sales, we hope to help keep the Dodge Poetry Festival a thriving, cultural celebration year after year." The largest poetry festival in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , the 2002 Dodge Festival featured four days of poetry readings, panel discussions, conversations on the craft of poetry writing and a wide array of other events, including musical performances and storytelling. Included among the more than 20 featured poets were five who have served as U.S. Poet Laureate poet laureate (lô`rēĭt), title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. : Billy Collins, Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, USA) is an American poet and author. In 1987 she became the second African American poet to win the Pulitzer Prize (after Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950). , Robert Hass, Stanley Kunitz, and Robert Pinsky. Over 17,000 people attended. "It is a pleasure to thank Borders, on behalf of the 2002 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, for providing an extraordinarily well-selected and well-stocked array of books, CDs, videos and literary magazines," said Jim Haba, director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. "Total sales continue to increase dramatically with each biennial Festival--this year, in some instances, Borders sold-out of all existing copies of a title. Such sharp, steady increases should persuade publishers that the interest in books of poetry far exceeds conventional projections." Operating both a main book tent stocked with over 500 titles, as well as a signing tent, Borders provided a full-service bookstore presence throughout the four days. The Festival was staffed primarily by employees of the Borders locations in Bridgewater and Livingston, N.J., though staff members from the Pennsylvania area Borders stores also lent helping hands. Bordersstores.com, Borders' store information site, featured the Dodge Poetry Festival throughout the month of September. Included on the site was a listing of participating poets with links to more information on their work. The site also housed an exclusive essay by current Poet Laureate Billy Collins in which he discussed the event's unique importance stating, "surely, a worthwhile goal would be to increase the audience for poetry so that its readers outnumber the people writing it, and that is exactly what this festival is doing." Borders Group, Inc., (NYSE:BGP) is a leading global retailer of books, music, video and other information and entertainment items with stores in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Singapore, and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. A FORTUNE 500 company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., Borders Group employs 32,000 worldwide and operates over 390 Borders domestic superstores, 29 international Borders stores, 37 Books etc. locations and approximately 800 Waldenbooks stores. Teamed with Amazon.com, the company also offers online shopping through Borders.com (www.borders.com). More detailed information for journalists is available at www.bgimediacenter.com. Financial data is hosted on www.bordersgroupinc.com and information on Borders stores is available through www.bordersstores.com. |
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