The ease and joyousness of every moment at Civitella Ranieri belies the incredible work it must have taken to create this residency, where every detail has been attended to with thoughtfulness and crafted with care. I emerged from time there refreshed, grounded and...
My stay at Civitella Ranieri provided me with the opportunity to incorporate a new element into my literary praxis: rest. Oftentimes my young literary career has been defined by working in an unsustainable way—long hours, trying to meet too many deadlines at once, and...
We are granted time at Civitella in part because we have already figured something out about the processes and motivations of our work. We have produced something of note, or on the verge of doing so. But arriving at the residency, and immersing ourselves in the...
Cathedral Not that I needed reminding, but even the trees, the trees! Like giant awestruck afros grown in the laboratory of a mad brother, the nerdy Nerudian of my dreamswho’s somehow isolated the colors of all the saddest love songs in the world—Baby, baby...
