A note from Gabrielle David and I am Executive Director of
the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc., a NY-
based nonprofit organization that promotes multicultural
literature and literacy.

I am pleased to announce the launch of our interactive literary
website, phati’tude (www.phatitude.org), a series of literary
programs that uses printed magazine, website, television
programming and events to keep the written word alive. Check
out our feature interview on Nuyorican poet Jesús Papoleto
Meléndez (Papo); a lively interview with Gabrielle David of
phati’tude and Papo on WBAI radio in NY; featured poet Iraqi-
Israeli poet Ronny Someck, as well as video clips, news
announcements, poetry, articles and more!

We’re also announcing the publication of phati’tude Literary
Magazine. Our submission deadline is March 1, 2010 for our
Spring 2010 issue, to debut in April 2010 in time for National
Poetry Month (check out our submission guidelines). One more
thing . . . we’re running a contest on our website at www.
phatitude.org – just fill in our survey and you can win a $100
gift certificate from Amazon.com. The survey helps us to better
serve the writers, artists and constituency we seek to serve.
Please let your members know about our services, I would
appreciate it if you would “catch phati’tude” and pass it on to
your members!

If you have any questions or inquiries, please feel free to
contact me at gdavid@phatitude.org.

phati’tude is a program incentive developed by the
Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), a NY-
based nonprofit organization that promotes multicultural
literature and literacy (www.theiaas.org).