1976 Today

        
                                             
                                         
 1976 Today - 353 bicentennial year sonnets
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 notes about current 1976 version plus links 
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 In this presentation I have entitled each sonnet
 by month and year-day.  I have done so because
 year-day has become more important to me than
 the commonly used month and date format.  Over
 the years I have changed how I entitle the sonnets
 composing 1976 (the original title for the 366
 sonnets in the original work) several times.
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 I have not attempted to group these sonnets by 
 topic, but each one/ is a piece in the puzzle
 of who I am.  Most of them were written in
 1976, and because I wanted my work to be
 a celebration of the bicentennial of my USA,
 many of the sonnets are history-centered. 
 Nonetheless, many others are confessional.
 Some of those are comically so.  While there 
 are situational, athletic, religious, political,
 philosophical, environmental, biographical,
 poetry-related, science-oriented, as well as
 sonnets on yet other topics or mixes of topics,
 the core topic is the human condition.  If you
 would like to read my leap year sonnet, see
 February: Year-day 60 (February 29th).
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 When you happen into one you do not feel 
 comfortable with, exit from it.
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 [ 2007-03-20:
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   The first of the 15 sonnets I removed,
   Year-day 2, is back in as a revised sonnet.
   Whenever a year-day without a sonnet 
   gets a new/revised sonnet, I will note it 
   on this page.         B A J S   ]
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[ 2008-08-02:
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 Year-day 348 (December 13) is back in. ]
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 The following is an elsewhere publication list
 for individual sonnets from 1976 Today:

 February: Year-day 34 (February 3rd)
     If it's still there, it is at
     www.sonnets.org
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 March: Year-day 82 (March 22nd) 
     (for Sandy Troedel)
     Spice of Life series article
     in West Bend News 1977
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 March: Year-day 61 (March 1st)
 March: Year-day 69 (March 9th)
 May: Year-day 137 (May 16th)
     in River Bottom
     Vol. IV No. 2 Summer 1977
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 April: Year-day 105 (April 14th)
 April: Year-day 106 (April 15th)
 April: Year-day 110 (April 19th)
 April: Year-day112 (April 21st)
     in Song 2 1977
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 September: Year-day 248 (September 4th)
     in Ramada Regular
     Volume 6, Number 7
     November 1980, p. 15
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 November: Year-day 307 (November 2nd)
     in Poetry Out of Wisconsin V 1980
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 December: Year-day 361 (December 26th)
     in The Sun
     a magazine of ideas
     issue 124  March 1986
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