The sonnet locates its thirteenth-century origins to a small island in the Mediterranean. But contemporary poets, contemporary American poets, have been using and innovating this form to speak to contemporary life both lived and imagined. Let’s spend time with this form and experiment with our own innovations. We will examine poems by Wanda Coleman, Forrest Gander, Joshua Mehigan, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Terrance Hayes.
Myronn Hardy is a faculty member at Bates College in Lewiston and the author of four award-winning volumes of poetry as well as short stories that have garnered two Pushcart Prize nominations.
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