(1939-2012) The experience of Civitella Ranieri is unbeatable. I have never enjoyed such perfect psychological conditions before. I think of peace, silence and color – all mingled together in mountains, light, paintings, medieval stone – and music. The memory lingers...
terrancehayes.com NEWS 09/23/2022: Terrance Hayes in the Paris Review 03/12/2022: Civitellians Inducted Into the American Academy of Arts and Letters 05/25/2021: Terrance Hayes on poem-a-day 04/17/2021: Terrance Hayes at AAP’s Annual Gala 02/14/2021: Announcing...
I have an idyllic life for a writer, with the man I love on a remote Cornish farm, so my fellowship seemed under-deserved. I likened the process of moving my writing base from Land’s End to Civitella to moving apartments in Heaven. What I hadn’t reckoned on was the...
Rich with grace from the minute I arrived. The invitation came to me out of the blue: I still don’t know whonominated me. Maybe it’s best that way: anonymous grace. The timing was uncanny. For the last fifteen years I have been working on a prose...
