Frederico Garcia Lorca Comes to Town

I was very pleased that Alfred A. Kopf, The New School and the Poetry Society of America teamed up to host a reading of new translations by Sarah Arvio of the great Spanish poet. Some of the participants exclusively read the English translations, while others read Lorca's poems in both Spanish and English.
Readers included Cyrus Cassells, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Nathalie Handal, Roberto Montes, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Philip Schultz and Sarah Arvio herself.
I'm always taken aback when I realize how young Lorca was when he perished, and how much great work he created during what was essentially his youth. It was also interesting to hear stories about how his memory was not celebrated for a long time in Spain, though he is widely celebrated today. Minus the part about being presumably tortured and killed for his homosexuality and political stances, the arc of his billowing posthumous fame I think is kind of every writer's dream. Like I said, minus the Civil War discourtesy of his presumed assassination.