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The Geist Jackpine Sonnet Contest

January 10, 2010 by The Staff 

What the jackpine sonnet is: 
A sonnet-like poem.

Where it comes from: 
Milton Acorn (1923 – 1986), a poet from Prince Edward Island, created the genre and named it after the jack pine, a tree that seeds itself in fire.

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