Foundation will receive the late poet’s books The poetry world was recently hard hit by the death of Mark Strand in November, 2014. Mark, who had been a frequent visitor to Umbria and to Civitella Ranieri Foundation, had been planning a return visit in the...
The Artist Project at The Metropolitan Museum of Art The following eight Civitellians are featured in The Met’s The Artist Project (videos are linked). The Artist Project is an online series in which The Met gives artists an opportunity to respond to its...
Anywhere Could be Somewhere: Remembering Mark Strand 2016 Intern, Elinor Kirchwey, created the booklet Anywhere Could be Somewhere: Remembering Mark Strand from compiled memories, anecdotes, and stories about our much-loved friend and poet, Mark Strand. It is...
Jenny Xie We are happy to share that Jenny Xie is the winner of the 2017 Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award, the nation’s most valuable first-book prize for a poet. Xie’s manuscript, Eye Level, will be published by Graywolf Press in April 2018, and...
Presentation of an artist book by Celeste Maia (CRF 2010) on the turbulent and dangerous 14th Century love story between Ines de Castro and Pedro of Portugal. Â
