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The sonnet is a form of creative confinement in Bradley Peters’ debut collection of poetry, Sonnets from a Cell.

Aleteia speaks to the Catholic poet about her book 'After Colonna' and about what it means to engage with poetry from another time period.

The month of April is dedicated to spreading awareness about the Earth, autism, stress and, less known, celebrating poetry. Whether it’s an ode, haiku, sonnet or any other style, April celebrates the history and wonder that comes from poetry all over the world.  The Academy of American Poets established April as National Poetry Month in...

The month of April is dedicated to spreading awareness about the Earth, autism, stress and, less known, celebrating poetry. Whether it’s an ode, haiku, sonnet or any other style, April celebrates the history and wonder that comes from poetry all over the world.  The Academy of American Poets established April as National Poetry Month in...

When we asked Terrance Hayes to make a playlist for you, our readers, he wrote us a poem.

The first UK collection for the late American poet introduces British readers to a thrilling, sardonic voice

According to Merriam-Webster, the word "doggerel" refers to verse that is "loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect" — a...

On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Terrance Hayes and his poem "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin."

In the collection, Hayes acknowledges the poet Wanda Coleman (1946-2013) with “tremendous gratitude” for the term American Sonnet, and quotes an interview in which she interestingly describes how she would set the form as a writing assignment. “When asked for a definition she called poems jazz sonnets ‘with certain properties—progression, improvisation, mimicry, etc,” he adds (Coleman’s American Sonnet 35 can be heard here) and concludes: “I decided to have fun — to blow my so...

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