I just wanted to hear your thoughts about writing sonnets. I've struggled writing Shakespearean Sonnets in the past, and I've been hearing about writing these new "modern" sonnets which just have 14 lines. I was reading Frank X Walker's book, Load in Nine Times, recently. I didn't realize that there was a series of 15 sonnets under the title, "Let My People Go" in the center of the book until another poetry book club member pointed it out!
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it doesn't happen often, but times when I get stuck with poems, I return to form
Sonnets are probably the easiest for me to return to; there was a time over a decade ago when they were what I primarily wrote I'm not the biggest fan of modern variants that are reliant on just 14 lines--the challenge of the meter, rhyme, and turn while adding coherence are what I enjoy most about sonnets, though American sonnets are definitely common now (Terrence Hayes's American Sonnets For My Past and Future Assassin comes to mind). I think the understanding that comes with practicing meter, rhyme, enjambment through sonnets is invaluable, even if someone primarily writes in free verse