The Wild Sonnets: Volume II (101-200)

The second book of 100 Wild Sonnets was a strange touchstone for me. Having finished the first collection, I had the intense desire to continue the work of adding new poems to the sequence, while having to admit that the lines were beginning to shift into more personal and fluid statements. The echoes of classicism still appear at times – there are poems on Icarus and Odysseus here, which are among my favorites. But the sensibility in this volume is a little more relaxed. One important milestone appears in these pages: Wild Sonnet #154, dedicated to William Shakespeare who wrote 154 poems in his immortal book of sonnets.

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.