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“The Marcel Breuer House was a perfect match for my sensibility. I enjoyed studying in the living room, periodically looking out onto the calm grounds immediately surrounding the building. Living alone in the space for two weeks gave me full access to the subtle design functionality of the house. No matter the weather (the large windows gave spectacular views of two volatile thunderstorms while I was there) or use (doing laundry, cooking, or writing), I was aware that I was spending time in an architectural work of art.”

—Christopher Stackhouse, 2009 Resident

Pocantico Residency for Cave Canem Fellows

Rockefeller Brothers Fund provides an annual writing residency for two Cave Canem fellows at its Pocantico Hills estate in Tarrytown, New York, where residents write in tranquility in a historic, bucolic setting. The residency culminates in a public reading in the community.

Residents stay in the Marcel Breuer House, commissioned in 1948 as an exhibition building for the Museum of Modern Art. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. subsequently purchased this architecturally influential structure and moved it to Pocantico, where it was used as a private guest house until 2007. Today, Rockefeller Brothers Fund administers and maintains the building for philanthropic and educational purposes.

2012 Fellow in Residence: Monique-Adelle Callahan

Fellows interested in applying may contact Cave Canem for guidelines: amandajohnston@ccpoets.org.