PoemBowl 6

And now for the next installment in PoemBowl, where you get to choose a winner! This edition has two sonnets that are part of a sequence I've been working on for the better part of a decade. I've never been able to get "Hamlet" out of my head since I first read it at 13. I'm a sucker for any adaptation, version, derivation, parody and follow-up. 


So here are my attempts to get all 16th-century emo, I'm curious to see which proves more interesting to people less obsessed with the play.

NOTE: My poems "Hamlet Sonnet: Denmark" and "Hamlet Sonnet: Bedchamber" used to be here. Now it's not. What gives? 

I'm preparing to submit poems for publication and almost every literary journal demands "right of first publication." Unfortunately — and laughably — this small corner of the Interwebs counts as prior publication, so they gots ta come down. Sadface. 

Click here to choose a winner!