Paul Verlaine Much of the French poetry produced during the "fin de siècle" was characterized as "decadent" for its lurid content or moral vision. In a similar vein, Verlaine used the expression "poète maudit" ("cursed poet") in 1884 to refer to a number of poets like Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Aloysius Bertrand, Comte de Lautréamont or Alice de Chambrier, who had fought against poetic conventions and suffered social rebuke or were ignored by the critics. But with the publication of Jean Moréas' "Symbolist Manifesto" in 1886, it was the term symbolism which was most often applied to the new literary environment. Along
David Campos (poet) David Campos (poet) David Campos (poet) is an American poet, writer, and producer of video poetry from California. His debut collection, "Furious Dusk", won the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies (ILS). Campos is a CantoMundo fellow. His poems have appeared in "American Poetry Review", "Boxcar Poetry Review", "Huizache", "Atticus Review", and "Verdad", among others. Campos attended Fresno City College, and California State University, Fresno where he earned a BA in English Education and the University of California, Riverside for an MFA in Creative Writing