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New Poem and essay on Lord Byron and Lucrezia Borgia published in Literary Hub 14 Jun 2024

Byron and Borgia: A Meditation on an Impossible Encounter Poet-in-Residence for “Byron 200” Scarlett Sabet Considers Two Passionate Souls Separated by Centuries

"I can’t help but wonder what Byron and Lucrezia would’ve made of each other. Two humans who have become mythical, their names adjectives for seduction and sin. Both had a power and a fragility, a fame and a vulnerability. And so, in this poem, standing in 2024 in our precious, fractured world, I look back, imagining the impossible: these two together; a fusion, an exchange of power, in an act of ownership and surrender"

Read my essay and poem in full on Literary Hub here