In a recent post from The Tide, a Nigerian daily newspaper, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (CRF 2015), A. Igoni Barrett (CRF 2018), and Elnathan John (CRF 2015) were named in a list of top five Nigerian novelists. Learn more about these authors here. “Abubakar Adam...
Monica Youn (CRF 2013) and Jane Hirshfield (DG 2013), who were in residence together at Civitella, found themselves together once more at Yaddo, an artists’ community in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Civitella alumnae sent their love and reminisced about their...
A comprehensive survey of large-scale works by Dawn Clements (CRF 2012), who passed away in 2018, is currently on display at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City. Moderated by Angela Dufresne (CRF 2018), there will be two digital talks on the show and Clement’s work...
Diane Mehta’s (Incoming Writing Fellow 2021) poem “Plum Cake” was published in the New Yorker. “I’d make a plum cake when she died,a lamentation grief-bake, Kaddish through blood-recipe,all of its colors shrieking at me; a sweet take on her...
Natalie Diaz (CRF 2015) was interviewed for the LA Review of Books on what brought her to poetry and how everything from basketball to her work recovering and revitalizing the Mojave language has informed her writing. Diaz says: “We’re taught that our bodies...
