Portal del Sol

14 by 14

As the title suggests, this journal dedicates its space strictly to modern sonnets, only publishing in cycles of fourteen sonnets by fourteen authors, which creates a journal that is, in and of itself, “shaped” like a sonnet. While each poem also creates its own visual shape, there is a definite lean toward the traditional metered and rhymed sonnet; as a drawback, you will rarely find one that remains unrhymed or that reshapes the sonnet in a surprising way. Still, within these traditional bounds, the content is quite modern, creating a journal that pushes the sonnet to new intensities and asks us to revisit a cherished poetic form.

Mary Stone Dockery