Dear Jon Olsen,

Sorry, but this is not for us.

Best,
Peter Bloxsom
Editor, 14 by 14
http://www.14by14.com   

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jon Olsen 
  To: editor@14by14.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:33 AM
  Subject: 14 by 14 Submission from Jon Olsen


  I bring you greetings from the future! We are encouraged by the growing revival of the sonnet form. I want to call your attention to a (radical?) new expression of the sonnet, going on at SFZero.org
  http://sf0.org/tasks/The-Graphic-Sonnet-Sonet-DesinxE9e

  The sonet desinee is an exciting re-imagining of our beloved form that I think is very well suited for internet distribution. I\'ve created one which I\'d like to submit to your publication, My Love in Her Displacement. 
  The image of this graphic sonnet is available at my personal url:
  http://waste.org/~burnunit/images/my-love.jpg

  I have not published this anywhere else, including in the various graphic sonnets at the link on SFZero, and I have not made the url public, so I believe it falls within your guidelines for first rights. I submit it to you in hopes of your recognition of the exciting potential for such variation on the form. 

  Best,

  Jon Olsen
  Minneapolis, MN

  PS, while editing this one, I worked out 14 lines of verse which are inspired by or relate to the images, but I want the images to speak on their own as a visual poem first and foremost. If the project interests you, I can submit just the text version separately. I also played with the rhyme scheme, wanting to try a variant that goes aabbab ccddcd ee, so there\'s actually two turns inside the poem. Thank you for a cool site!