After the holiday break, the 2016-17 FSF season is set to resume with David Kilpatrick’s book of soccer poetry: Obrigado: A Futebol Epic. [Download here.]
The collection offers a poetic take on the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, with a poem from each of the sixty-four matches plus an introductory poem: “an epic narrative of heroic emergence from conflicts between nations, promoting cosmopolitan awareness through the spirit of play.”
Dr. Kilpatrick is Associate Professor of English at Mercy College in New York and Club Historian at the New York Cosmos. He is a stalwart of FSF and we are looking forward to discussing his work online on Tuesday, February 28th at 2:30pm U.S. Eastern time.
To participate in the first FSF gathering dedicated exclusively to poetry, contact Alex Galarza or Peter Alegi.
