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 maryanncorbett |
The sonnet project? |
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Posts: 267 (08/17/08 10:11:21) |
In googling around, I happened on 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 thinking about the Nemerov just now 
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Posts: 1101 (08/17/08 10:53:44) |
Thanks for the notice, Maryann
There are some examples of similar efforts. Jee Leong Koh, for example, has a chapbook of sonnets he wrote roughly one-a-day during a recent April (national poetry month, of course). I have read others' attempts and tried it myself for something more like a week or two. In all cases, it seems the poems become very personal cycles, very Berrymanesque. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Jee's, which, as I recall, is called Payday Loans. My feeling is that a month is about the right duration for such a project. Berryman might disagree. RM Edit in: All right, I will mention the other projecteer I was thinking of: Our own Mike Alexander slipped me a January of 14ers last time I was in Houston. He gets the same Berrymaniac explosive introversion thing. As you can imagine.
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Posts: 2264 (08/17/08 21:32:28) |
My "Sonnets For a Second Summer" were written in a white heat (no wisecracks, anyone!), sometimes two or three a day but not every day, over a period
of about three months. I hadn't written anything for more than two years prior to that. I just suddenly started bleeding sonnets. Rereading them in my ripe
old age, however, I find most of them too purple.
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Posts: 230 (08/18/08 22:55:45) |
It's worth checking out. I read quite a few of his sonnets. I would publish very few if I were a good editor. I've read much better sonnets from our
members here. His work is decent, not wonderful, not without flaws. It's quite notable that he writes a sonnet everyday though--something most of us
can't do.
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scottstandridge |
Hi from the author of The Sonnet Project | ||
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Posts: 1 (09/12/08 10:31:05) |
Hello all,
I am Scott Standridge, the author of the Sonnet Project blog. I admit I was vanity-googling my name when I came across the board. I finished the project in April of 2007 and since then have been editing and sending out some of the results. The goal was to write a sonnet every day, whether it was a masterpiece or just a piece, and I managed to do it, for better or worse. It was quite an experience, and many of my personal interests spawned mini-cycles of poems within the larger project; for instanct, since I'm a big fan of horror and film noir and other genre work, many of the sonnets are genre-pieces, and the Nemerov finalist poem was actually a film-noir monologue in 14 lines. Anyway, I knew all the way throught that they couldn't all be gems, but I hoped that some of them would be. I hope you'll check more of them out, and let me know via comments if you find anything you like--or hate, even. Thanks again.
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City Slab Magazine [website] [blog] Personal Blog: Defined By Negatives Movie Blog: Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies Poetry Blog: The Sonnet Project |
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Posts: 4125 (09/12/08 10:49:31) Administrator |
welcome, scott --
like the cynobites of Hellraiser, we have always been here waiting for you. |
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Posts: 2 (11/04/08 09:05:50) |
If anyone's interested, I've been featured as the Spotlight Poet for November 2008 over at The Hypertexts ( http://www.thehypertexts.com ). They posted 12 of my sonnets, some of them newly revised. Obviously I'm pretty happy
about it.
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Posts: 4197 (11/04/08 09:27:59) Administrator |
congrats
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