This week we welcome Sally Wen Mao as our guest author. Sally is the author of a poetry collection, Mad Honey Symposium, which is out this month from Alice James Books. The recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Kundiman, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, she holds an M.F.A. from Cornell University.
Welcome, Sally.
In other news . . .
Next Line, Please: Help the American Scholar Write a Sonnet
On Tuesday, May 6, The American Scholar launched a website experiment in writing crowd-sourced poetry—in this case, a sonnet. David Lehman wrote the first line and selects subsequent lines from among those submitted by you. Here's the sonnet to date:
How like a prison is my cubicle
And yet how far my mind can freely roam
From gaol to Jerusalem, Hell to home
For details on how to submit your line for consideration, go here.
— sdh