"Jailed Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies Due to Covid-19"
"Jailed Iranian poet and documentary filmmaker Baktash Abtin has died in detention in a hospital after falling ill with Covid-19 aged 48, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI). Abtin was in prison on charges of 'propaganda against the state' and 'actions against national security.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Aaron Anstett on James Wright's "Eisenhower’s Visit to Franco, 1959"
"This poem, at once narrative, lyrical, and political, led me to more James Wright poems and to Spanish poets beyond Machado, particularly in the bilingual anthology Roots and Wings, which I discovered in my high school library along with the still-powerful Hayden Carruth anthology, The Voice That Is Great Within Us. From there followed a continuing lifetime of delight, bafflement, and discovery in poems." |
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