A small poetry press in Wales had their launch cancelled because some religious group threatened Waterstone's and Waterstone's caved in. Here's their blog, which includes an email address for teh Waterstone's guy. I've written him an outraged email from our company and if you wanted to do the same you can get the details (and maybe copy the guys in on it to show support?)here: feeds@yuku.com (Quincy R Lehr) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6943 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:49:21 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6926/t/All-Juster-all-the-time.html
Go to www.poets.org and click on "Poets & Poetry" on the upper left, then scroll to "Discussion Forums," then go to the top box under "The Writing Life."

Please turn your cellphones off! ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Michael Juster) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6926 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:40:20 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6917/t/Formatting-Problems.html Somewhere in Google, it mentioned that not having that Tx button could be the fault of your browser. Safari (which I mostly use, grr) isn't supported; and older versions of Firefox and some others might not be either. So, depending on which browser you use, downloading the latest version might help you.
Then, you also have to be using wysiwyg code formatting - which... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Celimlodyn) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6917 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:17:26 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6915/t/I-met-a-poet.html I met a real live poet the other day, here in Orange NSW (the middle of nowhere, to you).

David Brooks, author and poet, Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Sydney (now living in Slovenia), gave a 45-minute talk to some of our more able English students (Year 9, aged about 15). To their credit, they sat through what was basically a lecture, and even came up with some... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (yolhanson) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6915 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:27:35 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6907/t/14-by-14-Issue-Six.html http://www.14by14.com/Issue6/index.html ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6907 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:36:49 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6895/t/River-Styx.html River Styx along with a second ekphrastic poem. Major thank-yous! ]]> feeds@yuku.com (maryanncorbett) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6895 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:39:22 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6891/t/The-latest-Chimaera-is-online.html feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6891 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:50:39 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6890/t/Boycott.html
And for the small price of feeding a hundred in a top London hotel for a month for the pleasure? Fuck that!

I am sick and tired of magazines milking me when... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Nigel Holt) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6890 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:47:57 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6886/t/Contests-in-general.html Given Nigel's arguments on contests on a nearby thread, it seemed wise to open a new thread on the matter so that Scaer's announcement could do its thing in peace.

And let's start by acknowledging that there are two kinds of contests, broadly speaking--the manuscript contest and the individual poem contest.

When you ask people to shell out not huge, but considerable amounts of cash, and someone who seems to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Quincy R Lehr) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6886 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:42:16 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6875/t/New-England-Shakespeare-Festival-Sonnet-Award.html I'm excited to announce the return of the New England Shakespeare Festival Sonnet Contest. (The link is beneath the photo on the left).

http://www.newenglandshakespeare.org/
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stephen C Scaer) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6875 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:24:13 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6866/t/Still-Alive.html the aftermath of Ike may blow
but I am fine, if nothing else,
as a refugee in New Braunfels. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6866 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:27:05 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6861/t/STILL-UNABLE-TO-SEND-OR-ANSWER-PM-s-NEED-TO-FIND-OUT-.html feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6861 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:50:17 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6857/t/Morton-Marr-Poetry-Prize.html
let it be known that the deadline for the Morton Marr Poetry Prize is the end of this month.

It's run by the Southwest Review, a contest for poems using traditional form only, sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, etc., all welcome. The fee is a simple five dollar per poem, six poems maximum. (Do the math; it can't cost you more than thirty, & if you send only one, it's only five bucks. Y'all can swing that!) Google up the details for... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6857 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:08:25 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6838/t/An-interesting-site.html http://web.mac.com/drjazz/iWeb/Site/DGPoLibrary.html

Full of good stuff.
]]> feeds@yuku.com (yolhanson) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6838 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:32:22 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6835/t/Sonnet-Classroom-Diversion.html If the mods believe the quality is not sufficiently high of a posted sonnet - say of a level expected to reach publication within several drafts - then the poem should be immediately reposted on the sonnet classroom board. Or in the case of Mock-Elizabethan oddities they be banished to the furthest reaches of Hell.

People who behave... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Nigel Holt) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6835 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:00:41 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6834/t/What-sounds-good-to-you-.html
For example, I've noticed that I like rhyme endings to cycle through contrasting vowel sounds, but I can't nail down why I like certain combinations over others. Other than that, I know when I like something, but I'm not exactly sure why. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (StephenEvans) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6834 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:18:24 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6827/t/Issue-6-of-14by14-theme.html Things speak for themselves: we're looking for sonnets relating to physical objects - natural or man-made - seen objectively from any angle, literal/realistic, metaphorical, or whatever."


"Seen objectively from any angle"...A bit of an oxymoron, no? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (christy1985) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6827 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:13:11 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6824/t/The-sonnet-project-.html this blog, which belongs to Scott Standridge, one of last year's Nemerov finalists. It describes his year-long sonnet-every-day project. I've only glanced at it, but anything that produces a Nemerov finalist seems worth a mention.

Especially as Owl is also... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (maryanncorbett) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6824 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:11:21 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6818/t/14-by-14-Issue-5-is-online.html Issue 5 is online, with Sonnet Board authors well represented.

What time is it in Monte Carlo?

http://www.14by14.com/Issue5

And we are now open for Issue 6 submissions -- closing date September 28. Please see the Submissions page for theme, etc.
]]> feeds@yuku.com (Peter Bloxsom) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6818 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:31:58 GMT