What better way could there be to celebrate National Poetry Month in April this year than by writing a sonnet or three and submitting it to the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest?

Interested in trying your hand? Take a look at their website: entries@sonnetcontest.org. If you like, you can opt in for email updates. And if your are able to be in beautiful Winona, Minnesota on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, you won’t want to miss a very special sonnet celebration–readings and discussions at the Blue Heron Coffeeshop with poets Melissa Range and Ken Mogren. (I will have more later in the month on Melissa Range’s dazzling collection of poems (including sonnets) called Scriptorium (Beacon Press, Boston, 2016).

Happy reading and writing this spring! LESLIE