Sonnet III On the Prospect of Peace, in 1783 / David Humphreys --
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1768 / Phillis Wheatley --
To an American Painter Departing for Europe "ti Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) /
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 --
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 --
If We Must Die / Claude McKay --
From "Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree" / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
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 --
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 / Muriel Rukeyser --
Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden --
The Struggle Staggers Us / Margaret Walker --
History / Robert Lowell --
Kitchenette Building / Gwendolyn Brooks --
The rites for Cousin Vit --
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 --
American Sonnet 18 / Wanda Coleman --
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 --
Sonnet Done Red / Douglas Kearney --
From "Toxic Sonnets" / Joyelle McSweeney --
Duplex / Jericho Brown --
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? (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.