Ban the Bard!
3rd June 2022
A creative writing course at a British university has withdrawn graduation requirement that students should attempt a sonnet, not on the reasonable grounds that it is futile to try to turn people with cloth ears for language into sonneteers, but because the sonnet is a literary form that is white and Western.
I was writing sonnets in high school. Anybody who can’t write a sonnet doesn’t deserve a college diploma.