Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman

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...
Jill Bialosky

Jill Bialosky

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...
Valencia Robin

Valencia Robin

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...