[Scott Miller]

This discussion of what a sonnet is has definitely come up every time I've looked at the call for submission thread since joining. It's like a Shakespeare play with different actors from the Sphere Theatre Company playing the roles each time: the purist curmudgeon, the (relative) radical, the elder statesperson. It's fun, though. My first semester in grad school I was given a sixteen-line "sonnet". I would have loved to have you lovely people by my side then!

Anyway, what's the story with content? I don't want to sully a nice clean site with my smut, but hey, Philip Larkin and all. "This Be The Verse", e.g.?

[Maryann Corbett]

Anyway, what's the story with content? I don't want to sully a nice clean site with my smut, but hey, Philip Larkin and all. "This Be The Verse", e.g.?

I'm trying to locate the post of Julie Kane's poem about doing it doggy-style, which should give you some reassurance on that score. Be patient for a bit, and I'll come up with it, I'm sure. I think it was 2008.

And here it is.

Editing back to add: And if your question is about specific items of vocabulary, I recall but can't find a Wendy V. poem that featured the line "I am so fucking over you."

(These subjects and words may not confer an advantage, exactly, but if you're asking whether they'll disqualify you, the answer is that they won't, if history is any indication.)

[Scott Miller]

Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett

I'm trying to locate the post of Julie Kane's poem about doing it doggy-style, which should give you some reassurance on that score.

Thank you, Maryann! The poem (and the ensuing discussion of doggy-style mechanics) are definitely reassuring. And what a great poem! I enjoy so many of Julie Kane's sonnets.

Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett

These subjects and words may not confer an advantage, exactly, but if you're asking whether they'll disqualify you, the answer is that they won't, if history is any indication.)

I'm definitely not trying to play "shock jock" to the sonnet tradition either. I just know that some places are a little touchier about it than others, so I tend to ask when I don't know.

Thanks again,
S

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett

I'm trying to locate the post of Julie Kane's poem about doing it doggy-style, which should give you some reassurance on that score. Be patient for a bit, and I'll come up with it, I'm sure. I think it was 2008.

And here it is.

There was much discussion in that thread as to whether 'doggy-style' meant, or could mean, 'anal sex'. I thought I would belatedly (7 years later) mention that to the best of my knowledge, dogs do not engage in sodomy.