If you ask someone to name all the schools they can think of in the Northeast Region of the United States, you’ll hear schools like

• Harvard
• Yale
• Boston College
• Columbia
• Princeton
• Syracuse
• Georgetown
• Dartmouth
• Penn State
• UConn
• MIT
• Brown
• Maryland
• Rutgers
• NYU
• UPenn
• Cornell
• Pitt
• Tufts
• Wellesley
• Hofstra
• Boston University
• Carnegie Mellon
• Drexel
• Rochester

Should they be able to make it this far, they would feel a sense of accomplishment to be able to name so many schools from this prestigious region. Truly, the list reads as a who’s who not only in the Northeast, but in American academia as a whole. There are 25 days until the release of Alma Mater Vol. 2: The Northeast, which contains poetry inspired by and dedicated to each of these 25 institutions. And these 25 institutions…

Make up only one quarter of the schools in the volume.

On March 3, 2015, 100 Colleges of the Northeast will be celebrated in the second installment of the series that Kirkus Reviews calls “A Thoroughly Unique Poetry Project” with “A variety of delightfully unexpected poetic forms.” In this volume, you will not only get to experience the above 25 schools, but you will get to learn about so many others.

Follow ClydeAidoo.com for sample poems and updates on the Alma Mater series and purchase Volume 1 by clicking the link below to prepare yourself for Volume 2, which promises to take the series to another level.

Alma Mater Vol. 2: The Northeast will be available March 3, 2015

Alma Mater Vol. 1: The Midwest is available for sale below for only 99 cents:

Two fun facts about the number 27: The 27th president of the United States was William Howard Taft, a graduate of Yale University. Fact #2: In 27 days, his Alma Mater, among with all the other major universities of this prestigious region will be interpreted in the second installment of an avant-garde poetry series that celebrates the best universities in the country.

Last year, Volume 1 was called “A Thoroughly Unique Poetry Project” and an “Engaging Poetic Tour of the Midwest” with “A variety of delightfully unexpected poetic forms” by Kirkus Reviews. This year, we go to the Northeast to experience places like Yale University–the Alma Mater of names like William Howard Taft, and, of course, Rory Gilmore.

Follow ClydeAidoo.com for sample poems and updates on the Alma Mater series and purchase Volume 1 by clicking the link below to prepare yourself for Volume 2, which promises to take the series to another level.

Alma Mater Vol. 2: The Northeast will be available March 3, 2015

Alma Mater Vol. 1: The Midwest is available for sale below for only 99 cents: