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...
Composer Amos Elkana (CRF 2010) has recently released new work. Elkana was the recipient of Israel’s 2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for for Music Composition, as well as the recipient of the Rozenblum Prize for Excellence in the Arts in 2012. Stream his new...
Advisory Council member Francine Prose was recently profiled in the New York Times. Prose discusses her new novel, “The Vixen,” Ethel Rothenberg, and her gardening obsession. Read the article here.
London writer Paige Cowan-Hall was announced recipient of the 2021 Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize for her story ‘Ohenemaa’ in which colonial oppression is explored through a subtle power playbetween an ‘overseer’ and an Obeah (spiritual healer). As the...
Married artists Carrie Moyer (CRF 2019) and Sheila Pepe’s (CRF 2019) joint show, “Tabernacles for Trying Times” at the Museum of Arts and Design was featured in The New Yorker. The exhibition is on display through February 13th. “Moyer’s...
