Paul Verlaine Arthur Rimbaud, who admired his poetry. He urged Rimbaud to come to Paris, and by 1872, he had lost interest in Mathilde, and effectively abandoned her and their son, preferring the company of his new lover. Rimbaud and Verlaine's stormy affair took them to London in 1872. In Brussels in July 1873 in a drunken, jealous rage, he fired two shots with a pistol at Rimbaud, wounding his left wrist, though not seriously injuring the poet. As an indirect result of this incident, Verlaine was arrested and imprisoned at Mons, where he underwent a re-conversion to Roman Catholicism, which again
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