Quarterly Journal of English Language Poetry
     Special 5th Anniversary Issue (Spring 2014 Redux)          San Francisco  Berkeley  Amherst    __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
PictureCLICK PAINTING FOR Spring 2014 POEMS. "After the Storm" by William Keith.
Seven Poets
Des Clark-Walker
Allison Grayhurst
Julie Finch
Dr. Ernest Williamson III
James G. Piatt
Charles Farrell Thielman
Avgi Meleti
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Sonnet Prize Winners 2016-2019

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Spring 2014 Cover by Daniel Coolbrith Jones
The American Aesthetic is a quarterly journal searching for poetry that conveys in its very composition—as well as in the sound, cadence, and possibly even musicality of its words—an expression of honesty and purpose that somehow rings true. — See "The Elusive Poetic Voice" (Forum topic 5)
"Poetry, the feeling if not the words of poetry, --is he not dead to it, even as the pavement is dead over which his wheels trundle?" --Anthony Trollope
SHAKESPEARE
PETITION
Should Shakespeare's writings be
modernized?
​(Our petition says no!)
PAST SONNET PRIZE WINNERS
Claude Clayton Smith "Clawed" * Ian McCabe "Love's Misery" * ​Tina Quartey "A Broken Heart" * James Brooks "A Falling Star" * Claude Clayton Smith  "Until" * Brett Mertins "Short Song for a Stomped Cricket" * Sara T. Baker "On Finding a Hummingbird’s Skull"
The American Aesthetic's
Sonnet Prize
​$50
Spring 2019 Winner:
Benjamin Claggart "Ambition"
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The American Aesthetic recommends:
Original Oil Paintings
by​ ​California Artist
​Daniel Coolbrith Jones
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Studio location:
​Daniel Jones Fine Art
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At Left:
Publications by our
featured poets.
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At Right:
Editor's favorite magazine.
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