I'd like to say quickly, as I think the number is 10 (not 12 or 13), so this should be all the sonnets, that, while the range of subject matter may not be as great as it could be, the range of styles *is* pretty great, and the judges have shown themselves open to a much wider variety of approaches to the sonnet form than much of the membership. I think all of the poems have something to commend them, and I've enjoyed reading and thinking about the poems, both where I have and haven't commented. What I haven't enjoyed as much is all the schoolmarmish niggling about what is or is not a sonnet.
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