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Thank you to everyone who sent in a sonnet to our Bed of Roses Love Sonnet Contest. We received over 4,000 sonnets, and believe it or not, Garrison read them all. Writing a sonnet is not easy, and you all did very well — so well that, we had 31 finalists, and one winner drawn by a 12-year-old named Cooper from the live audience at the Town Hall. 
The first prize — from Select Comfort — will be a Sleep Number queen-size bed along with three dozen roses — a bed of roses delivered to your door — a source of untold joy, not to mention untold sleep. Read the Rules and Guidelines >> What's a Sonnet? from Wikipedia The term "sonnet" derives from the Provençal word "sonet" and the Italian word "sonetto," both meaning "little song." By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. Traditionally, when writing sonnets, English poets usually employ iambic pentameter. We're not going to be as strict as your High School English teacher, but please do try. | | | | |
Prairie Home on the Big Screen: Encore Presentation
If you missed Thursday's stellar A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD performance, there's still a chance to see it in theaters. An encore performance of A Prairie Home Companion from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be beamed in high-definition exclusively to 500+ movie theaters across the U.S. and Canada. With special guests Elvis Costello, Robin and Linda Williams, Jearlyn & Jevetta Steele, and Heather Masse.
Minnesota author, illustrator, and cartoonist Chris Monroe inked a short comic strip with Garrison Keillor. The comic reveals a few tricks of GK's writing style... or does it?
Read the strip»
The Prairie Home cruise has become legendary on two of the Seven Seas and now is setting sail on a third, a weeklong spring break cruise of the western Caribbean along the Mexican coast, and it leaves March 14 from Tampa.
Stories of a Wobegon romance far from home, all delivered with Garrison Keillor's trademark humor.
Read the first chapter»Signed Copies Available»
