The Sonneteer

Publisher of The Sonneteer. Founder of QuickMuse.

Author of THE LAST WORDS OF JACK RUBY, a novel, and other things. Editor-in-Chief of The Fortnightly Review. Professor of English at Lake Forest College.

Ernest Hilbert writes about book culture, and book history for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fine Books & Collections, and other publications.

Poet, novelist, translator, essayist.

David Lehman wrote the 1991 book "Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man." His books of poetry include "Ithaca" (February 2026) and "When a Waman Loves a Man." He is the editor of "The Oxford Book of Ameerican Poetry."

Cartoonist!

Poet, reviewer, occasional essayist. Posts "The Golden Mean - A Limited Series" on mid-length poems, chiefly narrative.

Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (2022). He has translated and edited many volumes of prose and verse, and his work has appeared in the NYRB, the TLS, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere.

A past poet laureate of Brookline, Massachusetts, Jan Schreiber has published six books of poems and translations and two books of criticism. He teaches in the BOLLI program at Brandeis University and runs an annual symposium on poetry criticism.

Poet, retured prof, NYC.

Sophie Cabot Black has four poetry collections: “The Misunderstanding of Nature”, “The Descent”, “The Exchange”, and “Geometry of the Restless Herd”.

Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems, including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy. She has also published a translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Daniel Galef's book Imaginary Sonnets features 70 monologues from the point of view of different historical figures, mythological characters, and inanimate objects, including Wernher von Braun, Lucrezia Borgia, and a taco: danielgalef.com/book/

Fourteen lines at a time.