Carol Tyler

Carol Tyler

Spring, 2016. I was broken and exhausted, hobbled by grief, barely able to function. But I would honor the invitation to fly across the pond and abide in the old castle for a season. Perhaps maybe it could reawaken my appetite for life and fill my cup with beauty...
Marko Pogačar

Marko Pogačar

A brim is a category. an expression of tradition, an edge that is not to be crossed. its word is never rebutted: under the brim there is often a head, a house, a rare and arrogant nothing. the head, if that of a cow, is pierced with a steel bolt. the cow is first...

Durs Grünbein

The hour circled around an account of the swallow’s flight. From the Rocca, the massive fortress tower of Umbertide, The sky was a sewing pattern. Scissors feathered in black Exposed the deceit of the evening blue, their dives Cutting the air. Around the solid...
Nam Le

Nam Le

Extract from an unpublished story https://civitella.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Nam-Le-Extract-from-an-unpublished-story.mp3...