[peterjb]

14 by 14 has been updated with a new set of sonnets, which will be the last this year. Fourteen different authors as usual, many of them Sphereans, also as usual. (Not that I'm here enough to be sure of the Sphericality status of all.)

http://www.14by14.com

Submissions remain closed until November at least. The editor needs to catch up on a heap of other stuff.

[Janice D. Soderling]

This is good news. A new 14 by 14. Hooray!

Get a good rest, Peter. And thanks for your service to po-world.

[Michael F]

What Janice said, Peter. Thank you, and happy, productive hiatus.

Pat Jones, your graphics are astounding. Melville's eagle: the talon, the stone, and the whiff of violence -- perfect.

[Tim Murphy]

What Michael Ferris said. Pat Jones is the secret weapon in Peter's armory.

[Jean L. Kreiling]

Hi, all--

Yeah, I'm bumping up a post that might bring a poem of MINE more attention, but that's not really my purpose. I'm just such a sucker for sonnets, and Peter does such a fine job of presenting them.

I hope it doesn't seem disrespectful to comment on parts of poems--poems which the poets have of course carefully crafted to be satisfying, whole entities--but this issue is teaching me how to . . .

--start a poem, as in the first line of Amanda Ferguson's "But Gone"
--end a poem, as in the last line of John MacLean's "Moment"
--break AND connect octave and sestet intriguingly, as in Ed's "Narcissus"

. . . among other things. And I haven't finished reading each sonnet once, much less the two or three or more times they deserve.

Thanks, Peter. (And thanks, Pat.)

Best,
Jean

[Rick Mullin]

I'll bounce it too! Thanks Peter. And Pat.
RM