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Quarterly Journal of English Language Poetry   Winter 2022, Volume 8                                                  San Francisco  Berkeley  Amherst __________________________________________________________________________________________________________


PictureCLICK PAINTING FOR EIGHT POETS. "Stream Through The Valley" by William Keith.
Eight Poets
(2013-2022)
Emily Strauss
Des Clark-Walker
Brett Mertins
Charles Thielman
James G. Piatt

Maxfield Lydum
William Conelly
Avgi Meleti

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Sonnet Prize Winners 2016-2019




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"Kalapana Beach" by Marcia Hope Young
The American Aesthetic is a quarterly journal searching for poetry that conveys in its very composition—as well as in the sound, cadence, and possibly even musicality of its words—an expression of honesty and purpose that somehow rings true. — See "The Elusive Poetic Voice" (Forum topic 5)
"Poetry, the feeling if not the words of poetry, --is he not dead to it, even as the pavement is dead over which his wheels trundle?" --Anthony Trollope

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SHAKESPEARE
PETITION

Should Shakespeare's writings be
modernized?
​(Our petition says no!)
Read Petition
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PAST SONNET PRIZE WINNERS
Claude Clayton Smith "Clawed" * Ian McCabe "Love's Misery" * ​Tina Quartey "A Broken Heart" * James Brooks "A Falling Star" * Claude Clayton Smith  "Until" * Brett Mertins "Short Song for a Stomped Cricket" * Sara T. Baker "On Finding a Hummingbird’s Skull"
Winning Sonnets

The American Aesthetic's
Sonnet Prize

​$50
Spring 2019 Winner:
Benjamin Claggart "Ambition"

Contest Closed

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Editor's Choice: Hypnos Magazine
Radium Town Press
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Lanikai Boat
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California/Hawaii Artist
Daniel Coolbrith Jones
Daniel Jones Fine Art
https://www.danieljonesart.com/
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