The Wild Sonnets: Volume I (1-100)

This first collection of 100 Wild Sonnets, published in 2019, contains some of my favorites from the entire sequence. I had just decided on the two seven-line stanzas to make up the 14 lines of the form, with their rhyming couplets at the close of each – and I think the writing at this stage of the project was uniquely rich and lyrically dense. In later books, I relaxed a little more into the lines – but this initial release strikes me still as uniquely muscular and musical.

Nicholas Korn is a poet, playwright, filmmaker and composer. The first volume of Wild Sonnets was published in June 2018, with the second following in October 2019. His stage play, Delirium's Daughters, was featured Off-Broadway in 2015, and his film, Revel's Rivals, won the award for Best Animated Feature at the 2012 Louisville International Festival of Film. In the early aughts, he founded and ran Stage First Cincinnati – a theater company dedicated to the ancient Greeks, Moliere and the occasional Shakespeare. As an artist, he combines classicism with a curiosity for all things digital – honoring equally the tradition and the trend. He lives in Bellevue, KY with his wife, Nancy. For more on current poems and projects, visit nicholaskornstudios.com.