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Cassandra de Alba and Amy Lowell

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Cassandra de Alba has published several chapbooks including habitats by Horse Less Press in 2016, Ugly/Sad by Glass Poetry Press in 2020, and Cryptids, which was co-authored with Aly Pierce and published by Ginger Bug Press in 2020.  Her work has appeared in The Shallow Ends, Big Lucks, Wax Nine, The Baffler, Verse Daily, and others. 

Amy Lowell was born in 1874 in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was educated in private schools in Boston and at her home. Lowell’s first significant poetry publication came in 1910 when her poem “Fixed Idea” was published in the Atlantic Monthly. Two years later, her book A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass was published by Houghton Mifflin. She went on to write several other books of poetry, and she was a key figure in the Imagist movement led by Ezra Pound. She wrote a major biography of the poet John Keats, which was published in 1925, the same year in which she died. Lowell’s book What’s O’Clock won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926.  

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Cassandra de Alba

Cassandra de Alba's website

Three poems in Dear Poetry Journal

"Self-Portrait with Rabbit Ears and Seventeen" at Verse Daily

"Miniatures" in Ghost City

"End Times Fatigue" at Sweet

Amy Lowell

Bio and poems at Poetry Foundation

Bio and poems at Poetry.org

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