Civitella

Tobias Wolff (Director's Guest 2012) reading

Director's Guest Tobias Wolff reads his short story "Say Yes", at Civitella Ranieri, May 2012.

Charles Bock (CRF 2011) reads from "Beautiful Children"

Charles Bock (CRF 2011) reads from his novel "Beautiful Children", at Civitella Ranieri, September 2011

Salvatore Scibona (CRF 2011) reads from "The End"

This week's Civitella podcast features Salvatore Scibona reading the beginning of his novel, "The End".

Josip Novakovich (DG 2011) reading

Director's Guest Josip Novakovich reads his short story "The Ice".

Mark Strand (DG 2011) reading

Mark Strand reading his poem "Anywhere Could Be Somewhere" at Civitella, June 2011

Eliza Griswold (CRF 2011) reading

Eliza Griswold reading her poem "Metamorphosis" at Civitella Ranieri, June 2011

Cynthia Marie Hoffman (DG 2011) reading

Burning Paper at Lazarus Cemetery

The woman who works in the cemetery in her blue smock
bends to pick a scrap of paper from the earth
and drop it in the barrel as a god would drop
a bird into a sputtering volcano. A white smoke
rises and disappears. All around her,
crosses are popping up like crooked weeds.
Listen to the little river swish
along the walls of the canal. Nearby, a fresh grave
is plump with flowers, a mound like a dozen girls
fainted in their ruffled party skirts. What better place
to be set into the ground? The trees
lower long necks to the water, their many flat faces
nodding at their own reflections. The woman bends.
Another bird is lit afire.

Interview with Dan Perjovschi (CRF 1996)

Diego Mencaroni, our Fellows Coordinator, caught up with Dan Perjovschi (CRF 1996) at his recent show at MACRO, and interviewed him for our inaugural podcast.