JK, MM, "We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms," as the Dean told us four centuries ago. Sonnets comprise less than ten percent of my ouevre, but for the leading women poets of our day, including many at this site, the figure is far higher. I often read manuscripts and first books where the ratio easily exceeds fifty percents. And this isn't a new phenomenon. Look at three generations, Espaillat, Chandler, and Dubrow.
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