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It is Sonnet Season! Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest–2025–Open Until June 1, 2025

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2025 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest
Call for Entries

Entries are now being accepted for the 2025 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. The entry process is a one-step system. Sonnet(s) must be submitted with the Entry Form. Complete instructions for entering are available on our website.

The Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest is an annual event that welcomes entries from around the world. Cash prizes, totaling over $3,000, will be awarded in several categories.

For more complete information, please click on the link below:

sonnetcontest.org

The deadline for entries is June 1, 2025. Submissions should be made through our on-line process, with payment option by PayPal or check. If this process presents a hardship, instructions for entering by mail will be provided upon request. Just send us an email.

entries@sonnetcontest.org

I love sonnets! The form is perennially engaing, long enough for complexity but short enough to memorize. I expect to be sharing a few newly minted ones this April. And I am looking forward to reading all the entries for the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. If you have any newly minted sonnets now–or come to have any before June 1–why not submit one or more to this wonderful contest. (Check out previous winning entries at the contest website.)

Happy writing! Happy spring!

Leslie

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Point Arena Lighthouse, Labyrinth, and the National Art Line Project

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Last August, in celebration of our anniversary, Tim and I traveled to California and Oregon. It was a many-faceted trip. We started in the Bay Area. After a live-changing lunch at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, we drove up the coast to spend a couple of nights at Point Arena Lighthouse. Why? My friend, Marilyn Larson, a labyrinth designer, collaborated with her friend, labyrinth designer Lea Goode-Harris, to create plans for a labyrinth for the Outdoor Museum at the lighthouse. (If you scroll down a bit, you can find information about this amazing site.) This outdoor artwork, installed to help encourage inner-and outer peace, is the western start (or terminus, depending on your orientation!) of a transnational line of such imaginative places that can all be found along the 39th parallel, including the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio and flowing to Cape May, New Jersey.

As you can imagine, I took lots and lots of photos. Tim also took a 360-degree short video of the labyrinth. Upon our return, Marilyn and Lea urged us to write a bit about our encounter. We did, and it can be found online: HERE is a link the an article Tim and I wrote.

And to learn more about the Art Line Project, HERE is the link. (Many thanks to Toby Evans of Sagebrush Exchange for her excellent summary of the Art Line Project.)

If you are ever near Point Arena, California, this is a delightful place to stay or to visit during a free hour.

LESLIE

Celebrating Independent Bookstores! Beagle and Wolf Books and Bindery in Park Rapids, MN

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Thanks to our friends, Tricia and Bob, my new book is in a great independent bookstore in Park Rapids, Minnesota. First, they introduced us to Beagle and Wolf Books and Bindery in Park Rapids a few years ago. Recently, on our fourth visit to this independent bookstore as customers, encouraged by these friends, I also asked the bookseller–who showcases poetry in the first display one sees upon entering the store!–if she would consider carrying Geranium Lake. Guess what? She said yes!

Photo by Robert Benson
View across the street from Beagle and Wolf
Bob Benson Outside Beagle and Wolf Books and Bindery

I have been rather diffident in the past about asking bookstores to care my own books, but with the encouragement of friends, this was actually rather fun for me. I have made a vow to myself to be a bit more outgoing when it comes to approaching booksellers and reading venues.

Question: Do you know of a great bookstore in your area that might be open to carrying a new collection of poetry, or a venue (library, bookstore, school, club, coffee house) that might like to have a poetry reading? If so, would you let me know? I will take it from there!

Thank you for your enthusiasm and your help!

LESLIE

Photo by Robert Benson