Len Krisak, the power behind the Powow Throne, has graciously agreed both to screen and judge this year's submissions. I shall have a great deal more to say about him shortly. Fascinating story, really, Tim Steele's office mate at Brandeis under JV Cunningham, translator and poet extraordinaire. Fer chrissake's his Horace is forthcoming from Carcanet, no less. I mean, they publish AD Hope! Send your sonnets, one apiece, please, to timmurphyis@att.net; and I shall forward them to the mage.

Tim, Tim, Tim. You have to post a deadline! Otherwise, how will we know when the very last minute is? Honestly.

Julie Stoner

Good Point, Julie! Send by Sunday, June 19, day or evening. I have to take to the road next week, and Len can mind the store. When I return, it's Haiku and Senryu time with Lee Gurga.

Tim, that doesn't leave much time, so are we looking for sonnets we've workshopped here? Any other guidelines? Is the contest anonymous? How many finalists do you think will be posted, and who'll post 'em?

Carol

Tim -

I am relatively new here and would like more information.

Thanks.

Catherine Chandler

Let's push it back to the following Sunday, the 26th. I shall simply forward emails to Len, so he'll see the authors' names. This really isn't a contest, never has been, more like a celebration. I've no idea how many sonnets I'll receive or how many he will choose to comment on. Sonnets need not have been workshopped here, merely written by members.

Tim - sorry to bug you for more submission details, but my inner engineer keeps asking questions.

New stuff (written in the past year) only, or whatever? Published okay, or unpublished only?

Michael Cantor

Michael, let's say published or unpublished, last two years.

Tim,
We stopped posting sonnets because every time we did someone asked why it was a sonnet and shouldn't we cut the last two lines?;)
Janet

Janet, I looked back and found I've written six sonnets since June 2003, but one of them's already been baked. That leaves five to choose from, and two of those are light verse. Maybe I can add a couple of lines or trim a couple of lines and make something else into a sonnet... http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/ubbhtml/biggrin.gif

Carol