RBG Crown Sonnet Gets First Visibility

 Sometimes publication of a single poem augers a greater success. In December, Mom Egg Review published Karren Alenier’s “Granddaughter Clara Spera explores Bubbie Ruth’s Big Closet.”

 

This poem is the first sonnet to be published from “I prefer to remember her in life,” which is a heroic crown of sonnets in tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

 

Recently Marilyn Nelson wrote a tribute crown of sonnets to Emmett Till. Here is her definition.

 

There are seven sonnets in a crown sonnet and the first line of the first sonnet becomes the last line of the last sonnet, and the last line of each sonnet is the first line of the following sonnet.

 

Crown sonnets comprise 15 sonnets where the last line of the first 14 sonnets contribute to the 14 lines of the last sonnet.

 

A second of these RBG sonnets “her play” has been accepted for print publication in Heron Clan IX.