Federico García Lorca was born in 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain, a small farming village eleven miles west of Granada. A poet, playwright, and theater director, García Lorca began writing sonnets as early as 1918 and continued to do so throughout his life. He was working on a new collection, The Sonnets of Dark Love, when Nationalist forces executed him in August 1936, soon after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2016–2017
- Stigmata of Love and Other Poems, poetry, in Winter 2017