A great place to read contemporary sonnets (away from the computer) is The Formalist. One year (2 issues) is $12; two years (4 issues) is $22 (plus $4/year outside of the U.S.). The Formalist also sponsors a yearly sonnet contest, with a first prize of $1000. Use the following address to subscribe or to obtain submission guidelines (send a self-addressed stamped envelope).
The Formalist
320 Hunter Drive
Evansville, IN 47711
Rim of Gold: a Cycle of Sonnets on the Weekly Torah Portion, by Esther Cameron, can be read at the site of the Madison Jewish Community Council
Poetry by Mark Jarman: Four "Unholy Sonnets" (text and audio) in The Cortland Review and Three "Unholy Sonnets" in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion.
Read some sonnets by David Novak. More at Chicago Poetry DotNet and a See ten sonnets by Peter Makem.
Read Summer Sonnet, a Shakespeare parody by Romana Machado.
Read about a new Shakespeare sonnet CD by the group Oberon.
Two sonnets are included in Seven Poems by Jan Schreiber in Expansive Poetry and Music Online.
Read Hard-boiled Sonnets, a work in progress by B. J. Omanson. And by the same author, The Tower at the Edge of the Wood and In War's Aftermath.
Read sonnets by Jan Schreiber and Patsy Anne Bickerstaff as well as a sonnet crown by Robert Darling at Edge City Review.
Read eleven sonnets by Beth Houston at Able Muse, including some RealAudio readings.
Read Odd Sonnets by Kevin Cawley.
Read twelve sonnets from The Uncompliant Stranger and (newly added) an essay, Hearing the Sonnet by David Wheldon.
There are several fine contemporary sonnets and sonnet sequences at The Poetry Porch.
Hungarian
Sonnet for an Irish Singer by George Szirtes is available at
the Hungarian Quarterly (don't worry--it's in English,
actually a sonnet sequence). Nicholas Gordon has a page of sonnets, many of which are written for special occasions and holidays.
The Rhythm of the Sonnets is Charles Wolff's project of setting a dozen Shakespeare sonnets to music.
Sample poems from Sonnets from the Mare Imbrium by Bart Baxter.
Steve Mott has posted some sonnets (Sonnets I, IV, and V) on his page, Sundry Twisted Histories
The Quarter Mile in Under 13 by John Oughton.
Figs by Alison Prince won the Literary Review July 1997 poetry competition.
Sonnets to Eurydice by Dennis Hammes (a sequence of 350 sonnets!)
The Face of Love:
Sonnets and Disonnets by Ray Blakely Sonnets for
the Nineties by Carla J. Atkins Sonnets by Rosa Clement Sonnets by Jerry Jenkins Sonnets on
Science by Raphael Carter Cyber-sonnet: An Interactive Electronic Poem by Michael Barnard.
A Chinese poem as an English sonnet(!)
Excerpts from Drake Raft's Spring Sonnets at Beaconway Press.
Excerpts from The Lost Sonnets of Cyrano de Bergerac by James Louis Carcioppolo.
Selections from The Famous God Said Sonnets by Richard Waller. Blank verse sonnets.
Some have commented on similarities between sonnets and Japanese tanka. Read some tanka at Eisuke Shiiki's tanka homepage, and decide for yourself.