Along with the sonnets, the team encoded a 26-second audio clip from Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream" speech, a copy of James Watson and Francis Crick’s classic paper on the ...

First published 400 years ago, Shakespeare's sonnets might never have been put to press had it been left to the author to decide things. As writer Clinton Heylin explains, Shakespeare's sonnets ...

Granted, the “best” sonnets to audition with are those that work for you. As with any monologue, you’ll need to try several out loud in order to find ones that fit your voice. A teacher can ...

One other point--the literal rules for writing sonnets, tankas, haikus etc. aren't particularly hard to follow. It's following the rules and actually saying something that's hard.

Most books about the Sonnets take two approaches: they either treat the sequence as a roman à clef and try to identify the YM and DL. The late AL Rowse spun this out over several volumes.

Pop Sonnets author Erik Didriksen has been writing poetry most of his life. "I grew up with a knack for rhyming," he says. "When I was little, I used to write my grandparents poems. There's a poem ...

These sonnets, lyrical in nature, draw heavily on metaphors and symbolism from everyday life and events – a quality reminiscent of the writings of Tahir’s mentor, Taufiq Rafat.

Why are sonnets so bracing, I wonder as I launch into a neo-Shakespearean sort of pity party. Absent presences in my dwindling support group, Leslie, Carrol, Ilka, Theresa and Trudy have all died.