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30 days of prompts: day 8

Despy Boutris
May 9
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Happy Monday!

Here’s what I have for you today:

  • The prompt

  • Housekeeping

  • Tweets


Day 8: Prompt

Write an anti-sonnet.

A sonnet, as you know, is a 14-lined poem—one that historically is in iambic pentameter & rhymes. Historically, these are also love poems—and heterosexual ones at that. They are also historically written by cis straight white men.

An anti-sonnet, then, 1) spans 14 lines but 2) generally (not always!) doesn’t rhyme / isn’t in meter, because it’s 2022, and 3) subverts the traditional form by focusing on subjects that weren’t addressed in Shakespeare & Donne’s times.

Here are some examples of anti-sonnets:

  • Confessional, Hieu Minh Nguyen

  • Changeling, Hieu Minh Nguyen

  • Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime, Yona Harvey

  • The Moons of Neptune, Như Xuân Nguyễn

  • In the Beginning, Donika Kelly

  • 43 Sonnet, Caki Wilkinson

  • Truth, Hala Alyan

  • Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God, Meg Day

  • America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me, Shane McCrae

  • Stridulation Sonnet, Jessica Jacobs

  • The Tradition, Jericho Brown

  • Devotions, Bruce Snider

  • Pupil, D.A. Powell

  • Anti-Sonnet Ice Cream, Oliver Antoni Krawczyk

  • I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines, Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • crown, Danez Smith

  • Heroic Crown: Queer Sonnets, Alicia Mountain


Housekeeping:

I had a very fun weekend being creative & stuff.

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Tweets:

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May 6th 2022

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May 9th 2022

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Alexis to Moira captioned “Maternal instinct, maybe?”
Moira responding “No, that's not it. No!”
Alexis Rose to Moira Rose smiling “Maybe.”
Schitt’s Creek Bobs Bagels. Moira Rose to Alexis Rose captioned “I'm feeling something. Something debilitating! You're the ill one, but I'm I'm feeling this- This-“
Alexis to Moira captioned “Maternal instinct, maybe?”
Moira responding “No, that's not it. No!”
Alexis Rose to Moira Rose smiling “Maybe.”
Schitt’s Creek Bobs Bagels. Moira Rose to Alexis Rose captioned “I'm feeling something. Something debilitating! You're the ill one, but I'm I'm feeling this- This-“
Alexis to Moira captioned “Maternal instinct, maybe?”
Moira responding “No, that's not it. No!”
Alexis Rose to Moira Rose smiling “Maybe.”

May 8th 2022

80 Retweets923 Likes
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imagine your roommate eats the plums you were saving for breakfast and then writes a bitchy little poem talking about how good they were. and then it becomes one of the most famous poems of all time

May 4th 2022

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