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Last year's winner was British-Trinidadian poet and novelist Anthony Joseph for his autobiographical collection Sonnets for Albert, which explores the impact of growing up with an absent father.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024

“You don’t seem too haunted, but you haunted,” repeats a line in Terrance Hayes’s “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.”

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2018

The day after the 2016 Presidential election, Terrance Hayes wrote the first of the seventy sonnets collected in his new book, “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

He began a strangely skewed Liszt first half with three works from the composer’s pilgrimage series by bringing a deliberate slowness to character pieces inspired by Petrarch Sonnets 104 and 123.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2016

I know that he gave me a gift, a collection of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove