POEMS

Sonnet III On the Prospect of Peace, in 1783 / David Humphreys

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1768 / Phillis Wheatley

Sonnet

To an American Painter Departing for Europe "ti Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) /

William Cullen Bryant

Woods: A Prose Sonnet / Walt Whitman

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

That boy, the farmer said, with hazel wand

Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips

Her Eyes / Helen Hunt Jackson

The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus

Assurance

One Night / Lizette Woodworth Reese

A January Dandelion / George Marion McClellan

Placido's Farewell to His Mother / James Weldon Johnson

Slow through the Dark / Paul Laurence Dunbar

On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900 / Alexander Posey

Electrocution / Lola Ridge

The Matrix / Amy Lowell

Sonnets That Please / Gertrude Stein

Hyla Brook / Robert Frost

To Madame Curie / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The New Negro / Lucian B. Watkins

"So Quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill

A Plum / Mani Leyb

Sonnet / Elinor Wylie

Sonnet / Fradel Shtok

If We Must Die / Claude McKay

America

From "Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree" / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sonnet I

Next to of course god america i / E. E. Cummings

From "Sonnets from the Cherokee" / Ruth Muskrat Bronson

Roman Fountain / Louise Bogan

Phallus / John Wheelwright

From "Seven Moments of Love: An un-sonnet sequence in Blues" / Langston Hughes

Two Weeks

From the Dark Tower / Countee Cullen

A Missionary Brings a Young Native to America / Helene Johnson

Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop

Sonnet of Intimacy

Sonnet / Muriel Rukeyser

Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden

The Struggle Staggers Us / Margaret Walker

History / Robert Lowell

Kitchenette Building / Gwendolyn Brooks

The rites for Cousin Vit

A Lovely Love

This Tall Horseman, My Young Man of Mars / Dunstan Thompson

Moonshot Sonnet / Mary Ellen Solt

The Beginning / Mona Van Duyn

The Feast of Stephen / Anthony Hecht

The Broken Home / James Merrill

May Morning / James Wright

From "Twenty-One Love Poems" / Adrienne Rich

Butchering / Rhina P. Espaillat

Sonnet: To Eva / Sylvia Plath

Sonnet XXXIV / Ted Berrigan

Sunflower Sonnet Number Two / June Jordan

The death of fred clifton / Lucille Clifton

"Vagina" Sonnet / Joan Larkin

The Eye of the Storm / Lyn Hejinian

I want this love to be resilient / Marilyn Hacker

The bride is in the parlor, dear confection / Ellen Bryant Voigt

MMDCCXIIP/z / Lorenzo Thomas

Sonnet (You jerk you didn't call me up) / Bernadette Mayer

New Rooms / Kay Ryan

Say Uncle

American Sonnet 18 / Wanda Coleman

American Sonnet 19

Tears, through the patchwork drapery of dream / Marilyn Nelson

I come to cafe, I sit, I bear / Aaron Shurin

Sonnet for Her Labor / Maggie Anderson

Glass Is Not Crystalline / Richard Kenney

Postcard from Kashmir / Agha Shahid Ali

From "33" / Julia Alvarez

Questionnaire / Charles Bernstein

From "Salutations in Search Of" / Patricia Smith

The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / Diane Seuss

Arte Povera / Henri Cole

Givingly / Carl Phillips

Against Teleology / Jackie K. White

When / Elizabeth Alexander

Millie and Christine McKoy / Tyehimba Jess

Graveyard Blues / Natasha Trethewey

From "Four Sonnets about Food" / Adrienne Su

Nude Palette / Anna Maria Hong

From "The Black and White Sonnet Series" / Giovanni Singleton

Ismail & Abla to Ahmed, Their Son / Philip Metres

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (The song must be cultural, confessional, clear) / Terrance Hayes

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison)

From "Nets" / Jen Bervin

Kiddo / Nathan Spoon

Sonnet Done Red / Douglas Kearney

From "Toxic Sonnets" / Joyelle McSweeney

Duplex / Jericho Brown

The Tradition

From "Ka `Olelo: elima'" / Brandy Nalani McDougall

My American Crown / Natalie Diaz

Reading Celan at the Liberation War Museum / Tarfia Faizullah

Love in a Time of Climate Change / Craig Santos Perez

Lacing: XII / Tacey M. Atsitty

From "Boy Corona": Crucifying / Meg Day

The Alien Crown (The conquerers came and wrote the conquered into being) / Lo Kwa Mei-en

African american literature / Nate Marshall

Ars Poetica or Sonnet to Be Written across My Chest & Read in a Mirror, Beginning with a Line from Kimiko Hahn / Torrin A. Greathouse

ESSAYS: THE NATIONAL AND GLOBAL SONNET

Self-Metaphorizing "American" Sonnets / Jahan Ramazani

The Rising Poems of America: Nationalistic Origins of the American Sonnet / Benjamin Crawford

Origins of Rupture: Emerson, Wheatley, and the Early American Sonnet / John James

E. E. Cummings: The Iconic Metasonnet and the Cultural Emblem of the American "i/Eye" / Gillian Huang-Tiller

Sonnets into the American: Translation and Transnation in the Harlem Renaissance / Timo Muller

Claude McKay's Lonely Planet: The Sonnet Sequence and the Global City / Walt Hunter

John Wheelwright, Sound Engineer / Matthew Kilbane

The Resonances of McKay's Sonnet Voice, Then and Now / Donna Denize

WHOSE SONNET?

Whose Sonnet? (A Transgression) / Carl Phillips

The Sonnet As: Neuroqueerness in the American Sonnet / Nathan Spoon

"From the you to me": Interpersonal Exchange in Margaret Walker's For My People Sonnet Sequence / Ariel Martino

The Sonnet Is Not a Luxury / Lisa L. Moore

Mapping Radical Poetic Geographies: The Sonnets of Frank X Walker and Maggie Anderson / Jodie Childers

Subverting the Tradition in The Tradition: Jericho Brown's Rgconceptualization of the Sonnet / Michael Dumanis

Deafing the Sonnet / Meg Day

WRESTLING WITH THE LANGUAGE AND TRADITION

Wrestling with the Language: Dialect and Form in Paul Laurence Dunbar / Hollis Robbins

Sensuous Waste in the Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman / Zoe Pollak

Frost in the Company of Shakespeare and Wordsworth / Jonathan F. S. Post

Strange Voltas / Michael Theune

Partial Visibility: Short-Lined Sonnets / Lesley Wheeler

Sonnets and/as Boxes: Ken Taylor, Joseph Cornell, and the New Lyric Studies / Nate Mickelson

Standing in One Place to Move: The Repeated-Line Sonnet / Rebecca Morgan Frank

"This resonant, strange, vaulting roof": Contemporary Sonnets beyond Iambic Pentameter / Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Kay Ryan's Miniature Sonnets / Diana Leca

Restaging the American "Freakshow" in Olio: Tyehimba Jess's Syncopated Sonnets / Mario Starr

HOME, INFERIORITY, INTIMACY

Broken Hearts and Broken Homes: The Desolation of the American Sonnet / Stephen Regan

Helene Johnson's "Barbaric Songs," "Choked" / Eleanor Wakefield

But Could a Dream: Form and Freedom in Gwendolyn Brooks's Domestic Sonnets / Tess Taylor

Gwendolyn Brooks's Esoteric Sonnet "A Lovely Love" as an Alchemical Metatext / Jon Woodson

Three Mothers, Two Eves: Female Virtuosity and Outrage in the American Sonnet / Anna Maria Hong

A Plummy Sonnet by Mani Leyb / Jordan Finkin

Eulogizing a Generation in Elizabeth Alexander's "When" / Abdul Ali

Animals and the Self in Henri Cole's Middle Earth / Yuki Tanaka.