Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. She has written for the New York Times and has four best-selling books with Penguin Random...
Civitella was the perfect place to immerse myself in thoughts, imagination, and ideas to refresh and inspire new work. Poems Read by Jill Bialosky https://civitella.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Jill-Bialosky.m4a...
I spent five weeks immersed in a book about politics and religion, making good headway in an environment more sublime than any I have known, among creative colleagues who were an inspiration in the hours away from work. I shall treasure the Civitella experience as...
For me being at Civitella meant not only linear progress in my writing, but also something more complicated, more organic, a return to the source of my obsessions, a more poetic and at the same time more challenging place. I mean that I think that my writing improved....
