Gerard Passannante

Director's Guest ( 2019 ) Writing USA

At Civitella, the spirit of the place takes over and serendipity prevails. Mark Strand’s gift of books to the castle’s library was another garden that nurtured the seeds of my next project. I am grateful for the deep encounters with the people I met at Civitella, for the reminder, as Strand puts it in his poem “Black Maps,” that “Each moment is a place / you’ve never been.”