2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellows Announced

2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellows Announced

Yesterday, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of their 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships to 180 exceptional individuals representing 51 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields. Among those honored were Jonathan Bailey Holland (Incoming...
Solo Exhibition by Bert Yarborough

Solo Exhibition by Bert Yarborough

Bert Yarborough (CRF 2018) has a solo exhibition “Marked, Select-ed Works on Paper” on view at FARM Projects in Wellfleet, MA through May 2, 2022, with an artist reception on Saturday, April 9 from 5-7pm. The exhibition is a selection of works on paper...
Premiere of “The Secret Life of Planets” by Annie Gosfield

Premiere of “The Secret Life of Planets” by Annie Gosfield

Civitella Advisory Council Member Annie Gosfield (CRF 2008, Juror) has a premiere coming up on April 9 at 5:30, by the L.A. Philharmonic. “The Secret Life of Planets,” is a song cycle that picks up where Gosfield’s 2017 opera “War of the...
News from Matvei Yankelevich

News from Matvei Yankelevich

Matvei Yankelevich (CRF 2021) shared his recent news and upcoming events with us. A translation of Osip Mandelstam’s 1937 poem, “Verses on the Unknown Soldier” by John High and Matvei appeared recently in The New Yorker. This strange...
Academy of American Poets First Book Award Announced

Academy of American Poets First Book Award Announced

The Academy of American Poets First Book Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The 2022 award, chosen by Tyehimba Jess, was awarded to Saltwater Demands a Psalm by Kweku Abimbola (Incoming Writing Fellow 2023). Abimbola’s manuscript will be published...