I've received ten sonnets already! Keep them coming!

Dear Eratosphereans,

It's that time of year again!

If you wish to participate in the 2011 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off (and I hope you will!) please email me one sonnet per poet in the body of an email (no attachments, please) to:

catherine dot chandler dot poetry at gmail dot com

by noon Eastern Standard Time, April 3, with the subject line as Bake-off.

Your sonnet may be unpublished or published (although, as in...

-- Last Chance -- Write Prize contest (poetry & fiction) extended for 24 hours by popular request (end of day today!) -- Enter now or that's it!


...Alex

OK, at least, they should be important ... OK, maybe important to me and quite a few others ...

• ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE (Poetry & Fiction) - $500 prize each & publication
  Judges: Rachel Hadas - poetry; Alan Cheuse - fiction
  Deadline: February 15, 2011
  
• ABLE MUSE BOOK AWARD (Poetry) - $1000 prize, plus book publication
  Judge: Andrew Hudgins
  Deadline: March 31, 2011

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Now available: Acclaimed new releases

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I pick up Edna at Rare and Racy: Wine From These Grapes. Hamish Hamilton. 90 Great Russell Street, London.1934 5s.net. Very plain jacket, but with soft rich pages beautifully cut and printed. Eight pounds! I hurry her home. She gives me this poem for my book of the winter:




How Naked, How Without a Wall



How naked, how without a wall
Against the wind and the sharp sleet,
He fares at night, that fares at all
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