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Federico Garcia Lorca

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— The poet who may be prime minister —

— I still begin with the particular, and hope to arrive at the universal —

— Her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, wrote a famous epigram about the great leader, for which he met an early death —

— Vehicle of literary endeavour —

— With breakneck pacing he [...]

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— Soon, she was weaving together poems about the employees’ experiences in America and at work at the factory —

— In the meantime, his poetry is massively overrated: rhymes are amateur, scansion is sloppy and the content is unintelligible, bordering on insane —

— Armed with magnifying glasses and mirrors, the censors are on a [...]

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Poetry News:

— War Has Stopped European Letters and Art; But After Peace Old Forms Will Be Inadequate to Express New and Tremendous Experiences Says Arthur Bullard - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— Freelance writer and Navy veteran Jeff Hess is starting a writers group specifically for those who have served in the military [cool, Jeff]—

— Beat [...]

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— American Literature Is Going to the Dogs; It Is the Fault of Magazines, Says Henry Holt, Who Laments Their Exploitation of Names and Accuses Government of Unduly Favoring Them - By Joyce Kilmer. —

— 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, Fun… What’s a Fib? Math plus poetry. —

— Women dominate the contenders, and [...]

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Poetry News:

— Shakespeare in Dogpatch - Of sonnets and comic strips [link courtesy afitf thank you] —

— Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled [link found here thank you] —

— Southern book festival announces authors for this year’s event [we have room for 1 guest if you plan [...]

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National Book Award winner Nathaniel Mackey talks about poetry, jazz and beauty in discord —

Mr. Zak left behind 40 cardboard boxes filled with lyric sheets —

The most famous gay man killed by the regime was the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca —

Lucretius on optical illusions By A.E. Stallings —

New [...]

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