Franco Baldasso (CRF 2017) has just published a new book, Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy. During Italy’s transition to democracy, competing narratives over the recent traumatic past of Fascism emerged and crystallized,...
Civitella Board Director Deborah Willis, Ph.D. (DG 2018) was recently awarded the $200,000 Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art. The prize is awarded by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. “There is something about...
Part of Gregory Pardlo’s (CRF 2018) poem “Giornata” was featured on poem-a-day yesterday, December 15th, 2022. Hear Pardlo read and reflect on the poem here. 8.My father Bacchus wanted a daughter instead of me.He felt the threat a son implies, and took you, my...
Fred Hersch (DG 2013) and esperanza spalding (CRF 2018) have released an album together: Alive at the Village Vanguard. Click here to pre-save the album on your favorite music streaming site, or to preorder CDs and LPs. Fred and esperanza will also be touring together...
In a recent Hard Hat Reading for Poets House, poet and scholar Kaveh Akbar (CRF 2021) recites and discusses the poem “I came to you” by Jean Valentine, as well as his own poem “Reading Farrokhzad in a Pandemic” from his recent book Pilgrim Bell. Check it out...
Visual artist Yasmin Golshani (CRF 2005) told Civitella about the recent protests in Iran and how they have influenced her work. Yasmin’s latest project highlights the worldwide movement of women cutting their hair as a symbolic demonstration of solidarity with...
