30 days of prompts: day 8

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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

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Housekeeping:

I had a very fun weekend being creative & stuff.

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Tweets:

My middle initial isn’t ‘x’ @lutherxhughes

Writers be like “i’m fighting demons” and the demons is the comma

matt @mattxiv

happy mother’s day to HER

out of context schitt’s creek @SchittsCreekOOC

trash jones @jzux

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

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