Ocean Vuong Receives TS Eliot Prize

Ocean Vuong Receives TS Eliot Prize

The Guardian announced that Ocean Vuong (CRF 2016) has been awarded the prestigious TS Eliot Prize for his debut collection of poetry, Night Sky With Exit Wounds:   “After becoming the first literate person in his family and a prize-winning poet festooned with...
Terrance Hayes Reads Matthew Dickman

Terrance Hayes Reads Matthew Dickman

Poetry Podcast, The New Yorker Terrance Hayes (CRF 2015) joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman’s (CRF 2016) poem “Fire” and his own poem “New York Poem” on The New Yorker’s Poetry Podcast.     ...
Andrea Barnet: Visionary Women

Andrea Barnet: Visionary Women

Andrea Barnet (DG 2010), author of All-Night Party: The women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930, has published a new book, Visionary Women, wihch tells the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these...
Maaria Wirkkala Awarded Order of the Star of Italy

Maaria Wirkkala Awarded Order of the Star of Italy

Ambasciata D’Italia, Helsinki Maaria Wirkkala (CRF 2013) was presented with the Order of the Star of Italy, or the Cavaliere Dell’Ordine Della Stella D’Italia, at an evenening celebrating the opening of the Ippolito Caffi exhibition at the...
Kate Soper Featured in The New York Times

Kate Soper Featured in The New York Times

Kate Soper (CRF 2017) was featured in converasation with Zachary Wolff of The New York Times regarding the recent production of her Opera, Here Be Sirens, at National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, performed by the Fresh Squeezed Opera Company.   Thumbnail...