This fellowship at Civitella Ranieri provided me with a chance to talk to artists in other disciplines and find out how they worked- to find out what inspired them, how the idea for a work was born, and then how they subjected that inspiration or idea to the rigour of...
Excerpt from the novel I want you to teach me how to die. That was how it began. It was the first time that anyone would make such a request to me. I was a grief counselor and I had listened to narratives of pain as varied as the secrets of the world. But no one had...
Rabbit still pushing in my intestinesDigestion grinding Civitella’s cuisine to soft powerWine finding its way to freeze my nerve and bloodWhen what is in me is still myself, not wineDiscuss with Jackie Things Fall ApartConnect to Chinua Achebe’s Nigeria resonating in...