"A Manifesto on the Contemporary Sonnet: A Personal Aesthetics" Tony Barnstone considers the sonnet from its formal beginnings
to its evolution into the twenty-first century, including some
generative techniques for sonnets of your own
Miranda Girard graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art in May 2006 with a General Fine Arts major and a minor in Creative Writing.
Winner of the Fire Nine poetry contest (an annual MICA student
poetry journal) and recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize in
2006, she completed her first collection of poems Sipping a Hip in May. She is currently teaching and performing dance, writing a larger book of poems, and working on figure and landscape oil paintings.
Ninety-Eight Year Old Cousin Alice And Her Photo Collection
"Kids used to the shake 'em down with their bats,"
Alice says, eying the dense apple tree.
She grinds her chair when one slaps the grass,
"My Herb liked 'em but they was potatoes to me."
"Here's a picture of him and Georgy mid-woof�
you can tell Herb's sicker cause the suit's too big,
and Georgy's tail's limp cause she fell off the roof.
Guess she thought she could fly since she sure could swim!"
Alice's old skin pleats a smirk 'til she spies
one of a plank-mouthed woman in a pansied shawl.
"My Mamma," she peeps, floating her left hand to her thigh,
and stares at her right—scabbed, twitching and balled.
She sighs at the next, "Myrtle sunnin' on the lawn.
Yeah she loved her who-dunnits. That's my Mamma. She's gone."
Miranda Girard graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art in May 2006 with a General Fine Arts major and a minor in Creative Writing.
Winner of the Fire Nine poetry contest (an annual MICA student
poetry journal) and recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize in
2006, she completed her first collection of poems Sipping a Hip in May. She is currently teaching and performing dance, writing a larger book of poems, and working on figure and landscape oil paintings.