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Links
last checked: March 2002
A
Low Probability of Racoons
Peter Howard's site -- a must-have for any poet's bookmark list and a treat for
anyone. Includes traditional poems, poetry related events, and hypertext and hypermedia
poems and poetry generators.
Aabye's
Baby
The poetry
is straight text (although sometimes the text is rather convoluted - you'll end
up scrolling horizontally as well as vertically in Tim Allen's "The Abandoned
Vertbrae" even if you have your screen resolution set to 1024x768) rather than
multimedia or graphically enhanced and covers a variety of styles with contributors
from Australia, the UK, and the US.
The
Albany Poetry Workshop
Here's a chance for you to submit your poems
for review by other readers. Basically, your poems will be published online for
a short time during which others can -mail in their criticisms and of course you
can send in your criticisms of others' work.
Atlantic
Unbound
Among the offerings from the general literary
site The Atlantic Monthly
- motto: Politics, society, the arts and culture. Bound since 1857, unbound since
1993 - is this section where RealAudio streaming can be accessed. For those who
just don't get poetry by merely reading it, this is a boon. The list of poems
available is impressively long, the style mainly traditional.
Electronic Poetry Centre
This site
was formed in 1994, and by April 2000 was logging eight million visitors a year
from 90 countries. The poetry that the site is interested in is that which
takes advantage of the medium of the Web, incorporating multimedia and interactivity.
The site posits electronic poetry as a natural extension of paper-based typographical
experiments using moving imagery and sound as well as fonts colour and graphics.
The e-poetry link on the home page connects to digital media work in progress
where kinetic, hypertext and programmable poetry can be explored. It goes without
saying that visitors should go armed with the latest browser versions and a range
of plug-ins for multimedia, such as: Flash, Shockwave Director, QuickTime and
RealPlayer.
It's even running its own e-poetry
conference, and places are quickly filling up due to its popularity.
Burning Press
Describing
itself as "an energy nexus for various literary projects" this is a site that
should appeal to those with any number of overlapping interests: poetry, multimedia,
and online writing and communities. With projects such as the CybpherAnthology
of Discontiguous Poetries, you might expect a forward-looking site where
traditional form and values per se are pushed. If so, you probably won't be disappointed.
The Eyrie
Neil
Harding has built a site in the upper reaches of cyberspace, well
on CompuServe's Ourworld server at any rate. The poetic refreshments
on offer for those who come to perch range from pub poems of the
rampant sort to "not quite the worst poem ever" - very refreshing
they are too.
Inter/face
Electronic Literary Magazine
Although
a literary magazine it mainly publishes poetry but competent poetry.
Internet
Poetry Archive Homepage
A
site at the moment housing material on Czeslaw Milosz, Philip
Levine, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker, Richard
Wilbur and Seamus Heaney. Includes multimedia readings and criticism.
Kurzweil Cyber
Art
A
downloadable poetry generator which doesn't rely on random suggestions
is a novelty that might just come in useful for poets and lyricists.
The software uses modelling techniques to create verse in the
style of one or more poets, and includes an essential "plagiarism
avoidance algorithm". Examples of work produced are on the web
site, mixed in with work by human poets, to provide an impromptu
sort of Turing test where visitors can try to decide whether the
examples cited are computer generated or the products of human
imagination.
Living Poets
A
large and colourful site edited by Sean A Woodward. It's packed
with poems and articles about poetry, and welcomes email submissions
of more. There's a good collection of artwork in the gallery,
a lively news section, plus the inevitable links to poetry rings.
It's more than proof enough that you don't need to be a dead poet
to be a good poet. The stated aim is to bring content and style
to the Web. A noble intention, and a good effort too. The frames
almost work throughout without the need for horizontal scrolling
which makes a pleasant change.
Lynx:
Poetry from Bath
Although
emanating from the University of Bath, this is not an academic
poetry site. The editor, Douglas Clark says the stress is on readability.
That's not to say that anything will get published here. Quality
rather than quantity is the keyword. In any case the site's remit
is not merely to publish poetry, its interests are broader. "What
this magazine is really about is articles and writers are invited
to submit if they have some point to make."
Peter
Finch Poet
Poetry
resources courtesy of a poet. Readers of A&C Black's Writers'
& Artists' Yearbook and Macmillan's annual Writer's
Handbook will recognise his name - he compiles the self-publishing
section for the former and the poetry section of the latter. Much
good advice about publishing is on offer as well as his own works
and links to other literary sites.
Poems Poetry Poets
Loads
of links to poetry related material such as Internet Poetry archives,
Winconsin fellowship of poets, Charlotte Mew etc.
Poetic Generator
This
experimental site is basically an experiment in real-time Web
collectivity so is not pointedly literary, although the theory
surrounding it and perhaps even the results may be of interest
to those who live and breathe online life.
The Poetry Book
Society
The
Poetry Book Society is an organisation that provides the latest
information and guidance about contemporary published poetry in
the UK and Ireland. Founded by T S Eliot in 1953, it's recent
Web site strives to reach a global poetry community and to provide
links to e-commerce sites.
The Poetry Exchange
This
is another place where you can send your poems to be criticised
and give criticism in return by email. You can also just submit
poems to be published on the page. There are also links to other
sites.
Poetry
In Britain
An
online club that describes itself as "for anyone, old or young,
romantic or rapper, sonneteer or gunslinger, who loves poetry".
It's a simple site based on chat rooms and messaging where poems
are posted and discussed. Membership is free and feedback on work
posted is said to be quick.
The Poetry Kit
The
Poetry Kit, edited by Ted Slade, is an online magazine that features
poems and related articles, reviews and interviews. It also highlights
events, courses and competitions - in the UK and elsewhere. The
Autumn 1998 issue has interviews with Ted Burford, Peter Howard
and David Kennedy, and poems from Janet S Buck, Ted Burford, Chris
Byrne, Peter Howard, David Kennedy, Larry Jaffe, Coral Hull, Michael
Rothenberg and CK Tower.
The Poetry
Society
All
the way from London, England! The premier UK site with details
about competitions, information for teachers, projects, news,
a cafe, links and workshops.
Poets And Writers Online
The
claims to have "all the resources you will need to succeed" may
be oversell, but the resources here are impressive all the same.
There's news and advice from agents, poets, writers and editors,
and links to other American poetry and writing sites. There's
a neat search engine which will help you locate poets and fiction
writers (listed by publisher and agent if you like). If you're
looking for information about workshops, writing programmes, conferences
etc, this is a good starting point. And if you want to sign up
for some poetry seminars in New York City for a measly $10, surf
no further.
Riding
The Meridian
The
impact of the Internet on poetry has been much quicker to make
itself felt than in many other literary forms. This site, that
has been coming online since 1999, looks at the work of multimedia
poets exploring how to use HTML to poetic effect. But, while examing
the theory and practice of sound, vision and hypertext, it does
not ignore old fashioned stand-alone text. Christy Sheffield Sanford,
the first trAce writer in residence, is on the masthead as co-curator
of the hypertext section. She and trAce director Sue Thomas are
both among the participants in the Roundtable Dialogue in volume
one issue two.
Snakeskin
George
Simmers runs the excellent Snakeskin, which has hosted some
intriguing material. Modern poetry is to the fore, but the zine
often features work that draws on Net technology whether based
on Java applets or more straightforward hypertext techniques.
Stream
of Consciousness
A
small zine worth looking at if only for the interesting way poetry
and graphics are merged. Definitely not the kind of thing you
find on paper.
World Poetry
Promoting
a range of poetry was one of the aims behind this project. "Promoting
strong accessible poetry which moves the senses and soul without
fogging the mind is our primary motivation". American poets form
the starting point, although the mix is promised to become global
later. Not for a while, though. In the summer 1999 reading was
on temporary hiatus, but volunteers for the project were still
being sought. Only poets with a minimum of 12 publications in
magazines or anthologies (not including self publication and vanity
press) are eligible to submit work.
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