Palestinian writer Adania Shibli (CRF 2013) has been in the middle of an international controversy after an event celebrating her latest novel, “Minor Detail,” about Palestinian history and memory, was canceled by the Frankfurt Book Fair. Shibli’s novel, which was a...
The Academy of American Poets has announced their 2023 American Poets Prizes. Major Jackson (Incoming Writing Fellow 2024) received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship which recognizes distinguished poetic achievement. Academy Chancellor Marilyn Chin (CRF 2015)...
Poets.org and the Lannan Center will host a reading of poetry from Ukraine featuring several past, present and future Civitellians, including Carolyn Forché (CRF 2012), Ilya Kaminsky (Incoming Writing Fellow 2025), Lyudmyla Khersonska (DG 2022-present) and Boris...
American visual artist Liz Collins (CRF 2023) has an exhibition of mixed media works opening at the Luis de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles on November 4th. The show, titled “Cosmologies,” will be on view until December 22nd. “In ‘Cosmologies,’ Collins materializes her...
Diane Mehta’s (CRF 2022) poetry collection Tiny Extravaganzas comes out on November 2nd with Arrowsmith Press. The book launch will take place that same day at 6PM at Boston University’s Katzenberg Center alongside poets Christopher Merrill and Steven Cramer who will...
Russian visual artist Taus Makhacheva’s (CRF 2016) latest film “ЦIумихъ (Tsumikh – Avar for ‘At the Eagle’s’)” has its U.S. premiere at Canal Projects in NYC through December 16th, 2023. “In the film, Makhacheva interrogates the fraught relationship between personal...
