Three World-Acclaimed Poets Come Together for Celebration of Shakespeare's Sonnets

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Shakespeare's timeless sonnet is well-known; but today, sonnets are rarely written because of their difficulty. Phillis Levin, Molly Peacock, and Henri Cole take the Folger stage to celebrate William Shakespeare's most famous gift to poetry. The work of these innovative poets showcases the legacy of the sonnet in language that is alive, current, and charged.

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Phillis Levin is the author of three volumes of poetry and the editor of The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. Henri Cole is the author of six volumes of poetry and is the 2007 McGee Professor of Writing at Davidson College. Molly Peacock is the author of five books of poetry and a memoir, and she is the editor of a collection of creative non-fiction.

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