"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly." – Robert Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love (1973)

About the journal
Sixty-Six is devoted to the sonnet form, in English and the other languages in which it has flourished. In each issue, readers will discover original sonnets and sonnets in English translation, articles on the history of the form and its contemporary use and variations, and explications of particular sonnets, sequences, or sonneteers, and reprints of previously published sonnets deserving of a wider audience.

First-time readers may like to start with the contents of the current issue, or with Clearing House -- a running account of sonnets and sonnet studies currently appearing in print and online.

To potential contributors
The editors are now reading for the Spring 2010 issue. Authors interested in submitting essays, reviews, original sonnets, or translations into English, or who would like to recommend historical sonnets for republication, may contact us by email.

An autumn sonnet reading...
Join us on November 12, 2009, at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Harvard Square, in Cambridge Massachusetts. Our featured readers are Ernest Hilbert -- editor of Contemporary Poetry Review -- and Mark Schorr, director of the Robert Frost Foundation. Sonnets by both authors appear in the Fall 2009 chapbook issue of Sixty-Six. The reading begins at 7 PM, and will be followed by a wine reception. Free and open to the public -- all lovers of the sonnet art are welcome.