December 21, 2003: Pulitzer Winner, the Late Alan Dugan, Featured in the Third Anniversary Issue of The Pedestal Magazine.com

Charlotte, NC – Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Alan Dugan, author of seven books of poetry and recipient of many awards and honors, including the two National Book Awards, is the featured writer in the nineteenth issue of The Pedestal Magazine.com, marking the magazine’s third year anniversary.  Three artists from The Lowe Gallery, long considered one of the South's most prestigious contemporary art galleries, are our featured visual artists: Maggie Hasbrouck, Harry Paul Ally, and Lita Cabellut.

"Alan Dugan died this September (2003), just two years after he won his second National Book Award for his collected works, Poems Seven. The first time he won the award was in 1962 for his first book, Poems, published by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and for which he also won a Pulitzer Prize. That year he also received the Rome Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Since then he has been awarded a Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation awards, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His poetry removes all traces of the sentimental; at times, the poetry is nihilistic, dark, giving words to the side of human nature where vice and guile reside--all in the language of the daily idiom, the talk of everyday life" writes Lindsay Sloan in ...Untitled: A Retrospective Look at the Life and Work of Alan Dugan published in this month’s issue.

In this third year anniversary issue, we are very excited to feature the work of three Lowe Gallery artists: Maggie Hasbrouck, Harry Paul Ally, and Lita Cabellut. Each of these artists has exhibited his or her work in numerous galleries and is represented widely in both public and private collections. The Lowe Gallery, long considered one of the South's most prestigious contemporary art galleries, has recently expanded to a second location in Santa Monica, California.

This issue also includes new works by 15 poets, one fiction writer, three non-fiction writers and five new book reviews.

The Pedestal Magazine.com is the vision of published writer and entrepreneur John Amen. Mr. Amen’s mission for the magazine is to publish a premier literary and art magazine, exclusively online, featuring new and established writers and visual artists.  The URL is: www.ThePedestalMagazine.com.