Trip costs:
$4,500 tour fee covers all excursion and entry fees, staff and tour guides’ work, and room & board for ten days at the Castle. This includes an apartment with a kitchenette, bedroom, bathroom, and studio, lunch and dinner each day, and access to all common spaces. Breakfast is not included. There is a reduced fare for double-occupancy rooms.
Travel costs are not included in the tour fee.
There is an openness and generosity to the approach here which leads to a deeper discussion of individual work and of the genre in general. Conversations continue over trips to nearby farmers markets, on walks in the surrounding woods. The whole experience is about poetry—reading it together and writing it in free time, and gaining so much material for poems to come.
Page Starzinger, 2023 Workshop Participant
David Baker is author or editor of many books of poetry and poetry commentary, including Whale Fall and Swift: New and Selected Poems as well as Seek After: On Seven Modern Lyric Poets and Show Me Your Environment. His poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. Longtime poetry editor of The Kenyon Review, he currently curates the magazine’s annual ecopoetry feature, “Nature’s Nature.” He teaches at Denison University and lives in Granville, Ohio. This is his second year leading the Civitella wonder poetry workshop.
Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction and seven collections of poetry, including Animal Eye, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize; Nightingale, winner of the 2020 Washington State Book Award for Poetry; and West: A Translation, which was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award in Poetry. Her newest works of nonfiction include a book-length essay, The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam and Appropriate: A Provocation. She guest edited Best American Poetry 2020. A pedagogy book is forthcoming: Real Toads: Imaginary Gardens: How to Read and Teach a Poem (W.W. Norton).
Powell is the author of the trilogy of books Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2004), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Lunch (Wesleyan University Press, 2000); and Tea (Wesleyan University Press, 1998). His poetry collection Chronic (Graywolf Press, 2009) received the Kingsley Tufts Award and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent books are Repast: Tea, Lunch, Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2012).
Powell has received a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, among other awards. Powell has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, and served as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University. He currently teaches at the University of San Francisco.
