If you would like to see more, enjoy the winning sonnets and runners-up from several previous Folger competitions. Read the winning sonnets and runners-up from our 2019 Shakespeare's Birthday Open House sonnet contest.Try your hand, see how much of this sonnet stuff you want to play with, and no matter what, enjoy the experience of writing poetry.
Read a poem that refers to the film The Matrix.The world is your oyster! You can write a sonnet…īanish boredom around the dinner table or on the couch!Ĭollaborate to write and record yourselves across the miles. Step 1: Choose your own sonnet adventure. If you film yourself reading it, we encourage you to share it in writing, too. Upload to social media, tagging and using the hashtag #ShareYourShakespeare so that everyone can enjoy what you wrote. In keeping with a long-standing Shakespeare's Birthday tradition at the Folger, we'd love to read or hear your own 14-line sonnet.