Sheila Pepe (CRF 2019) has a new exhibition opening June 26 in Madison Square Park. “My Neighbor’s Garden” is an outdoor installation inspired by the neighborhood gardens of New York City. Pepe uses string, cord, ties, shoelaces, rubber bands and climbing plant...
Vocalist Ganavya Doraiswamy (CRF 2021) and composer Sivan Eldar (CRF 2021) met during their residency at Civitella in 2021. Their time at the Castle gave rise to an extraordinary collaboration that is still in progress, now with director Peter Sellars: an...
Civitellian Aaron Hamburger (CRF 2009) has been awarded Lambda Literary’s 2023 Jim Duggins, PhD Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. The prize honors LGBTQ-identified authors who have published multiple novels, built a strong reputation and following, and show...
Epiphany Zine has just published three poems by Civitellian Alicia García Bergua (CRF 2010), a Mexican poet, essayist, and editor. Click here to read “I exist alone,” “When my mother took us out as children,” and “Shoes in a circle” in both English and their original...
Join us Thursday, July 6th at 6:00 PM at the Civitella Ranieri Castle for presentations by Kweku Abimbola & Allison Amend. We will welcome you with light refreshments beforehand. Kweku Abimbola, Writing, USA/Gambia (he/him) Kweku Abimbola is a poet, professor, and...
Three Civitellians were featured in The New York Times T Magazine’s “25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature.” The magazine called the list a collective effort to define the English-language works that have been “most influential in the making and...
