David Baker, Mihret Sibhat, & Page Hill Starzinger Presentations

Join us on Thursday, May 28, 2026 at the Civitella Castle for Presentations by David Baker, Mihret Sibhat, & Page Hill Starzinger. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 5:45 PM.

Thursday, May 28, 2026

5:45 PM Welcome cocktail

6:00 PM Presentations

David Baker is an American poet, literary editor, critic, and educator based in Granville, Ohio, and Hudson, New York. He is author of many books of poetry and poetry commentary, most recently Transit (poems, W. W. Norton, 2026), Whale Fall (poems, W.W. Norton, 2022), and as editor, Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly (W.W. Norton, 2025). His work appears in such journals as The Atlantic, The Nation, New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, and has been translated into Romanian, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Italian. In residence: May 18–June 5.

 Mihret Sibhat was born and raised in Ethiopia before moving to California at 17. Her debut novel, The History of a Difficult Child, won a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. A graduate of the University of Minnesota’s MFA program in Creative Writing, she was a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant. Her essays have appeared in the LA Times, The Paris Review [Daily], LitHub, and Electric Literature. She is currently revising her second novel, The Door of No Refund.

Page Hill Starzinger’s third poetry collection, Blood Brook, will be published in March 2027 by Four Way Books. Her second book, Vortex Street, was short-listed for the Grand Prize in Poetry by the Eric Hoffer Award Committee. Her first book, Vestigial, won the Barrow Street Book Prize, selected by Lynn Emanuel. Her chapbook, Unshelter, won the Noemi Chapbook Contest, chosen by Mary Jo Bang. Poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Volt, Fence, and others. Starzinger was Copy Director at Aveda for almost twenty years, and co-authored A Bouquet from the Met published by Abrams. She taught a Master Class at the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center and a craft class at The Frost Place, A Center for Poetry & the Arts. Starzinger lives in New York City.