Bernadette Meyer
Meyer, Bernadette. “Incandescent War Poem Sonnet”. The Reality Street Book of Sonnets. Edited by Jeff Hilson. Hastings: Reality Street Editions, 2008. poem is found on page 126
Sunday Sonnet
November 9: Anne Sexton
Sexton, Anne. “For My Lover, Returning To His Wife”. No More Masks: An Anthology of Poems By Women. Edited by Florence Howe & Ellen Bass. Garden City: Doubleday/Anchor, 1973. Poem found on page 191.
November 2: k. d. lang
Trail of Broken Hearts
lang, k.d. “Trail of Broken Hearts”. written with Ben Mink. Copyright 1989.
Sunday Sonnet
Today’s poem is by Marilyn Nelson
Nelson, Marilyn. “Balance”. The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. Edited by Phyllis Levin. NY: Penguin Books, 2001. poem found on page 296.
October 27: Sylvia Plath
Plath, Sylvia. “Ariel”. The Penguin Book of Women Poets. edited by Joan Keefe & Kathleen Weaver. NY: Penguin Books, 1979. Poem found on page 355
Sunday Sonnet
Juliana Spahr “After Mark Hoppins”
Spahr, Juliana. “After Mark Hoppins”. The Reality Street Book of Sonnets. Edited by Jeff Hilson. Hastings, East Sussex, Reality Street Editions, 2008. poem found on page 306.
August 28: Rita Dove
Dove, Rita. “Geometry”. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry: Volume 2 Contemporary Poetry. Edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann & Robert O’Clair. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. poem found on page 976.
August 22: Dorothy Parker
Parker, Dorothy. “Chant for Dark Hours”. from The Portable Dorothy Parker. NY: Penguin Books, 1976. Poem found on page 95.
Sunday Sonnet
Singer, Burns. “from Sonnets for a Dying Man: XLIX”. The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology. Edited by Edward Hirsch & Eavan Boland. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Poem found on page 252.
Sunday Sonnet
Schwartz, Delmore. “The Beautiful American Word, Sure”. The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. edited by Phillis Levin. NY: Penguin Books, 2001.
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