I wrote a sonnet in response to today's napowrimo.net prompt.
Today we’d like to challenge you to write an “American sonnet.” What’s that? Well, it’s like a regular sonnet but . . . fewer rules? Like a traditional Spencerian or Shakespearean sonnet, an American sonnet is shortish (generally 14 lines, but not necessarily!), discursive, and tends to end with a bang, but there’s no need to have a rhyme scheme or even a specific meter. Here are a few examples:
Wanda Coleman’s American Sonnet (10)
Terence Hayes’s American Sonnet for the New Year
Ted Berrigan’s Sonnet LXXXVIII
If you’d like more specific instructions for how to get started, Write 253 has a great “formula” prompt for an American sonnet, which you can find here.
I'm a fan of the sonnet, specifically the few rules within an American sonnet. I continue to build a portfolio of love sonnets that have a post-modern, post-covid slant that follows the relationship between two people, myself and my husband. The sonnet form has come naturally to me when writing about my life with my husband. It's freedoms and restraints allow for me to turn ourselves over, notice, inspect, observe. The poem below follows that tradition...
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