Poet and scholar team Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith collect and foreground an impressive range of sonnets, including formal and formally subversive sonnets by established and emerging poets, highlighting connections across literary moments and movements. Poets include Phillis Wheatley, Fredrick Goddard Tuckerman, Emma Lazarus, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gertrude Stein, Fradel Shtok, Claude McKay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ruth Muskrat Bronson, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dunstan Thompson, Rhina P. Espaillat, Lucille Clifton, Marilyn Hacker, Wanda Coleman, Patricia Smith, Jericho Brown, and Diane Seuss. The sonnets are accompanied by critical essays that likewise draw together diverse voices, methodologies, and historical and theoretical perspectives that represent the burgeoning field of American sonnet studies.Contributor List: EssayistsAbdul Ali, Baltimore, MDAnna Lena Phillips Bell, University of North Carolina, WilmingtonJodie Childers, Queens, New YorkBenjamin Crawford, University of AlabamaMeg Day, Franklin and Marshall CollegeDonna Denize, St. Albans SchoolMichael Dumanis, Bennington CollegeJordan Finkin, Hebrew Union CollegeRebecca Morgan Frank, Northwestern UniversityAnna Maria Hong, Mount Holyoke CollegeGillian Huang-Tiller, University of Virginia, WiseWalt Hunter, Clemson UniversityJohn James, University of California, BerkeleyMatthew Kilbane, University of Notre DameDiana Leca, University of OxfordAriel Martino, Colgate UniversityNate Mickelson, New York UniversityLisa L. Moore, University of Texas at AustinTimo Muller, University of Konstanz, GermanyCarl Phillips, Washington University in St. LouisZoe Pollak, Columbia UniversityJonathan F.S. Post, UCLAStephen Regan, Durham University, UKJahan Ramazani, University of VirginiaHollis Robbins, University of UtahNathan Spoon, Joelton, TNMarlo Starr, Wittenberg UniversityYuki Tanaka, Hosei University, JapanTess Taylor, Ashland UniversityMichael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan UniversityEleanor Wakefield, University of OregonLesley Wheeler, Washington and Lee UniversityJon Woodson, Howard University emeritusContributors List: PoetsElizabeth Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Julia Alvarez, Maggie Anderson, Tacey Atsitty, Charles Bernstein, Ted Berrigan, Jen Bervin, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Ruth Muskrat Bronson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jericho Brown, Lucille Clifton, Henri Cole, Wanda Coleman, Countee Cullen, William Cullen Bryant, E.E. Cummings, Meg Day, Natalie Diaz, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rhina Espaillat, Tarfia Faizullah, Robert Frost, torrin a. greathouse, Marilyn Hacker, Robert Hayden, Terrance Hayes, Anthony Hecht, Lynn Hejinian, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Anna Maria Hong, Langston Hughes, David Humphreys, Helen Hunt Jackson, Tyehimba Jess, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, June Jordan, Douglas Kearney, Richard Kenney, Joan Larkin, Emma Lazarus, Mani Levb, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Nate Marshall, Bernadette Mayer, George Marion McClellan, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Claude McKay, Joyelle McSweeney, Lo Kwa Mei-en, James Merrill, Phillip Metres, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Simone Muench, Marilyn Nelson, Craig Santos Perez, Carl Phillips, Sylvia Plath, Alexander Posey, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Adrienne Rich, Lola Ridge, Muriel Rukeyeser, Kay Ryan, Diane Seuss, Fradel Shtok, Aaron Shurin, giovanni singleton, Patricia Smith, Mary Ellen Solt, Nathan Spoon, Gertrude Stein, Adrienne Su, Lorenzo Thomas, Dunstan Thompson, Natasha Tretheway, Fredrick Goddard Tuckerman, Mona Van Duyn, Ellen Bryant Voight, Margaret Walker, Lucian B. Watkins, Phillis Wheatley, John Wheelwright, Jackie K. White, Walt Whitman, James Wright, Elinor Wylie