Civitellian Rick Barot (CRF 2011) is on the Library Journal’s list of this Spring’s top poetry for his, “The Galleons.” This new work by Barot presents his family’s immigration from the Philippines to America as part of a larger investigation:...
Civitellian Jane Hirshfield (DG 2013) says that environmental concerns began creeping into her poetry as early as 1988. In 2004, Hirshfield first addressed climate change directly in the brief, cautionary poem “Global Warming.” But, starting in 2014, there was a...
The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry is a recognition that is given out every two years to a poet with inspirational talent. The award recognizes a poet who has accomplished significant and impactful presence in American literature through their growing body of work....
Dear Group 1 and 2 Civitellians, It is with a heavy heart that I communicate to you that the Board of Civitella Ranieri Foundation and I are announcing that we will cancel Groups 1 and 2 of our 2020 residency program. The staff and I have been fielding anxious emails...
Carrie Moyer (CRF 2019) and Sheila Pepe (CRF 2019) are artists and partners in life who just opened their first institutional collaborative show, “Tabernacles for Trying Times” at the Portland Museum of Art. The show is “loosely conceived as a kind of sanctuary...
On March 27-29, the first-ever festival of Palestinian literature in the United States will take place, Palestine Writes, a three day celebration of Palestinian writing in New York City. The Festival will take place at New York’s School of Visual Arts, and New York...
