Support Rip Cohen Fund

I am writing as a friend of Rip, who wants to help this brilliant scholar and teacher of medieval Portuguese and Classical poetry deal with his financial woes. Jobless and with scarcely any income, Rip now lives in humiliating poverty and isolation in the north of Portugal, barely able to scrape together money for food and the roof over his head. I visited him this past August and personally saw his plight. Most pressingly, he owes taxes of over 3000 Euros to the Portuguese government (with interest accruing every month) for a supposedly tax-free fellowship held years ago. He needs our assistance now. Please help us to get him out from under this oppressive cloud and meet some of his modest needs.  Though living hand to mouth, Rip nonetheless continues to read, write, and publish important new work at an amazing pace. Your generous aid will help ensure that he can continue doing so. Please help our friend/colleague/mentor out of his desperate situation. Rip is aware that I am trying to find crowd-funding for him, and he accepts the necessity. Since he is undocumented, I will be the one to pass along donations to him. Words can’t express how grateful he will be for your assistance.    

Peter Bing
Professor of Classics
University of Toronto