#4: Sonnets

Open from March 1 to May 1, 2021. Accepted sonnets were published from April 1 through June 1, 2021.

ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE

The purpose of this assignment is to write a sonnet on the topic of your choosing.

For this assignment, we would like to receive submissions that communicate in the special language, craft, logic, and emotion of a sonnet.

Read the poems here.

FORMAL INTERESTS

We are specifically interested in sonnets that demonstrate careful attention to the elements of shape, line, music, comparison, and balance, and especially how those choices contribute to the cooperative harmony of form and content in the poem. Sonnets that do not meet these interests may be declined. For more on this perspective, see the five formal causes of beauty in poetry.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Sonnet submissions should be saved in Microsoft Word document format and composed in Times New Roman, 12 point font. They should be attached to an email to editor@texaspoetryassignment.org and include within the body of the email a brief cover letter and a 50-word biography.

EXTRA CREDIT

We are also interested in receiving sonnets accompanied by brief audio or video recordings of the sonnet by the author. Audio or video files should be saved in or converted to MP4 format and attached to the submission email.

ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION

This call was open from March 1 to May 1, 2021. Accepted sonnets were published from April 1 through June 1, 2021.

READING

Texas Poetry Assignment will also host a reading of selected sonnets from this assignment. Date and time to be announced.

PUBLICATION RIGHTS

Writers will retain all rights to their work published on this site.