Help us ensure that we can continue to make our monthly events more accessible by contributing to our ASL interpretation fees. Our interpreter does an amazing job, and we know interpreting poetry can be particularly challenging. ASL interpreters deserve to be paid for their labor, and we are happy to be able to pay for this service. At this support level, you get:

• All of the above benefits, plus an Open Mouth sticker sent to you (please provide your address when you join!).

Help us increase access at our events! The auto-captions provided by Zoom are only about 80% accurate, but CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) writers see the text in advance and are able to prepare, making their captions much more accurate (98% and above!). We haven’t had the funding for this in the past, but we would really like to start. As poets, we know that every word in each poem is chosen carefully, and we want our live captions to reflect those careful word choices and show each word as the poet intended. If we get enough supporters at this level, we will start having CART writers at our monthly events. At this support level, you get:

• All of the above benefits, plus a personalized thank-you postcard signed by the Open Mouth Literary Center Team (please provide your address when you join!).

All funds from this funding level go directly toward supporting the Open Mouth Literary Center’s Residency on Mt. Sequoyah. Help us ensure that we can continue to support local writers by providing one poet the time and space to work on their creative projects each month. This can be very valuable for any writer without a designated writing space at home, and we prioritize writers without other institutional support. We only need three supporters at this level to be able to continue our residency indefinitely. By supporting this tier you get:

• All benefits from previous tiers
• A personalized monthly postcard signed by the Poet-in-Residence at Mt. Sequoyah (please provide your address when you join!), and your name on our residency.
• Our website will list you as one of the funders, and all promotional materials related to the residency will list your name as one of the funders. EX: The Open Mouth Literary Center’s Residency on Mt. Sequoyah, funded by [your name here].

Making our events accessible is a lot of work, and we need to pay our staff who gather access materials, get materials to ASL interpreters and CART writers so they can prepare, gather links in advance of readings, write image descriptions and alt text, and monitor the chat during readings, as well as working to promote the events so you know when they are happening. We value their labor and we want to ensure we can pay them for their time. At this support level, you get:

• All benefits from $20/mo and below tiers (excludes $50/mo benefits), and our website will list you as a top-tier funder. 
• We will include your name in our newsletter and on social media to express our gratitude publicly. 
• In addition, our team would be happy to workshop a piece you have written and offer our feedback (up to 10 pages), free of charge. Email us at [email protected] to set this up when you sign up.