[Susan McLean]

I will be hosting the Sonnet Bake-Off, which will be judged by Catherine Tufariello. To enter, send one sonnet per person to me at <Susan.McLean@smsu.edu> with the heading of "Sonnet Bake-Off" by midnight (U.S. Central time) on Sunday, April 18. I will take the names from the sonnets, narrow them down to 25, and send those 25 on to Catherine, who will then narrow them further to 12-13. We plan to start posting the 12-13 sonnets with her comments, two per day, starting on May 1. At that point everyone is welcome to join in with comments of their own. When all of the sonnets have been posted, I will start a thread in which people can vote for the top three of the sonnets. Then I will tabulate the results and announce a popular winner, while Catherine will also name her top three. Only then will the names of the authors be announced.

Susan