V.R. Lang

V.R. “Bunny” Lang (1924–1956) was a poet, playwright, actress and director born in Boston, the youngest of six daughters. She was a founding member of the Poets’ Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1950, where she staged two verse dramas, Fire Exit (1952) and I Too Have Lived in Arcadia (1954), and starred in multiple other productions, including the original performance of Frank O’Hara’s Try! Try! (1951). Her poetry was widely published in her lifetime, particularly in POETRY, and she was, for a time, editor of the Chicago Review. She died of Hodgkin’s disease at the age of thirty-two.

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