Ocean Vuong in the Financial Times

Ocean Vuong in the Financial Times

Ocean Vuong (CRF 2016, Incoming Director’s Guest 2022) recently sat down for an interview with the Financial Times. He discusses his new, recently published collection Time Is a Mother, literary celebrity, grief, and reclaiming language for pleasure. Click here...
Civitella Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month

Civitella Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month

May is AAPI Heritage Month, a time to pay tribute to generations of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders whose cultures, languages, & innumerable contributions have enriched our history. Civitella celebrates our many AAPI Fellows & spotlights American poet...
2022 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

2022 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

Congratulations to Francisco Goldman (Incoming Writing Fellow 2022) and Mai Der Vang (CRF 2017) who were both 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalists. Goldman was a finalist in Fiction for his book Monkey Boy, and Der Vang was a finalist in Poetry for her collection Yellow...
New Projects from Kate Soper

New Projects from Kate Soper

Miller Theater’s MISSION: COMMISSION Kate Soper (CRF 2017), Vijay Iyer, and Oscar Bettinson spent 6 weeks making pieces for the Parker String Quartet while documenting the process in interviews and audio diaries. They are already three episodes in, so if...
Upcoming Artist Talk with Elise Engler

Upcoming Artist Talk with Elise Engler

Hosted by Battery Park City Authority, on Wednesday, May 11th at 6PM at 6 River Terrace, Elise Engler (CRF 2004) will give a talk on her book A Diary of the Plague Year: An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020. The book is one year of a daily drawing/painting project that...