News from Anni Liu

News from Anni Liu

Anni Liu’s (Incoming Writing Fellow 2022) poetry collection, Border Vista, recipient of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize from Persea Books, comes out on April 12, 2022. The Lexi Rudnitsky Prize is awarded annually to a first poetry collection by a female-identified...
Shimon Attie Group Show Opening

Shimon Attie Group Show Opening

Shimon Attie (CRF 2010) will attend the opening of the 3-person exhibition Sanctuary City at Hunter College’s East Harlem Gallery on Wednesday, March 23 from 6-8PM. Sanctuary City: Three Artists Explore the Refugee Experience in New York City is an exhibition...
Kae Tempest on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

Kae Tempest on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

Last night, March 21st, 2022, Kae Tempest (CRF 2017, DG 2015) performed a medley of “More Pressure” and “Grace” from their upcoming album “The Line Is A Curve” as musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch the...
World Poetry Day: Victoria Redel featured on poem-a-day

World Poetry Day: Victoria Redel featured on poem-a-day

Victoria Redel’s (DG 2010) poem “The Pact” was shared on poem-a-day today. Today is also World Poetry Day; Civitella treasures poetry as an important forms of cultural and linguistic expression. We are thankful for the many great poets who have been...
New Book by Dan Chaon

New Book by Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon (CRF 2018) has a new book coming out on May 24th. SLEEPWALK is a comic suspense road novel about a melancholy mercenary who finds out he has a daughter he’s never met. Preorder the book now from your favorite bookseller. If you’d like a signed...