a 66 FEATURE: Jill McDonough's Execution Sonnets

• Editors' Note
• "The Poet on Her Poems" by jill mcdonough
• A Bibliography of Jill McDonough’s Execution Sonnets
  Appearing in Other Publications
• A Selection of Sonnets: "August 6, 1890: William Kemmler", "July 8, 1797: Abraham Johnstone", "May 21, 1997: Bruce Edwin Callins", and "October 8, 1789: Rachel Wall"

ESSAYS

• Christopher Bakken, "Robert Lowell in 14 Lines"
• Christina Mengert, "On Translation"
• Deborah C. Solomon, "Rhyme and Rhythm in Locke's Meditation"
• Stephen Tapscott, "Poems from the Sonetos del amor oscuro"
• Meg Tyler, "Paths and Aftermaths: Heaney & Longley's Recent Sonnets"

SONNETS

• Charles Baudelaire, "The Wretched Monk", translated from French by Richard Gibson
• Síol Bhodthú, "Pearl Necklace"
• Philip Brady, "Mendocino", "Berkely"
• Philip Christensen, "Ezra Pound on the Threshold of Calvary", "Life Sentence"
• Alan Clinton, "Relic Haps", "Solitaire"
• Temple Cone, "Matchwood"
• Herbert Eulenburg, "On My Wife's First White Hair", "To the Rhine", translated from German by Zachary Bos and Nora Delaney
• Erika Greber, "Shakespyromaniac Sonnet"
• Sándor Kányádi, "Loose Sonnet", in Polish as translated from Hungarian by Jerzy Snopek, and in English as translated from Polish by Tom Delaney
• Federico García Lorca, "Sonnet of the Rose-Wreath", "The Poet Talks with His Love on the Telephone", "The Poet Asks His Love to Write to Him", "Song of the Tender Complaint" translated from Spanish by Stephen Tapscott
• Emily Merriman, "The Fig Tree", "Sonnet III"
• Richard Newman, "Your Gaze", " Like This"
• Francesco Petrarca, Sonnets 15, 35 and 40, translated from Italian by Christina Mengert
• Karl Riha, "Pyromaniac Sonnet"

ARCHIVES

• Edith Wharton, "The Sonnet"

REVIEWS

• Nora Delaney, "Orphic Naming in Karen Volkman's Nomina", "Triny Finlay's Splitting Off"

CLEARING HOUSE - a listing of sonnets in print