The Poetry and stories of John Horvath Jr.

William Lyon Mackenzie - famed Canadian Revolutionary - John Horvath Jr. searches for his truth.

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John Horvath Jr. is a Chicagoan living in Mississippi, a disabled veteran, and a professor in literature and criticism. Since the late 1960s, he has performed his poetry in Munich, London, and across the U.S; his poetry appears in print (e.g. Nimrod and Antigonish Review) and online (e.g. Ariga [Israel] and Isibongo [SA]).

John Horvath Jr., is editor of PoetryRepairShop, and for his bibliography

On writers, John Horvath Jr. says: "I'm an eclectic reader: S.T. Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas alongside Akhmatova, Juhasz and Petofi, also Whitman, Ginsberg, and Ferlinghetti. Favorites change over time."

On writing: The biographical, not autobiographical, and social narratives are a strong influence. Plato said that poetry endangers the established order of the soul; I write from "inside the sinner" where poetry exercises empathy and sympathy, renders the observed more open to discussion, more human, and perhaps more dignified. My technique is sprung or 'ruptured' rhythm: ideas are written in pen, revised into traditional metric/rhyme schemes (not necessarily English), then revised into free verse/lyrical form."

Recent Poetry: Ygdrasil, Moongate, Lynx, Charlotte's Web, and Ixion.

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