Kate Soper (CRF 2017) shares some of her recent quarantine projects… 1) The second issue of “Wet Ink Archive,” featuring her postponed opera The Romance of the Rose with essays and sneak peeks (including the very first two minutes):WET INK ARCHIVE...
The longlist, or ‘The Booker Dozen’, for The 2020 Booker Prize was announced last Tuesday 28 July 2020. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges, chosen from 162 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2019 and 30...
Civitellian Tsitsi Dangarembga (CRF 1999) has been arrested in Harare, in her home country of Zimbabwe “amid a sweeping crackdown by security agencies ahead of planned anti-corruption demonstrations.” Read more on her arrest and the state of the country in...
Two poems that David Lehman (CRF 2006) wrote while at Civitella, “Thinking” and “Thunder in Umbria,” were published in The Best American Poetry blog. Read the poems and see the bog post here.
Three Civitellians have been awarded the 2020-2021 ROME Prize from the The American Academy in Rome. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, Rome Prizes were awarded to twenty-two...
