POETRY ONLINE
Directories:
Magazines
1. The Poetry Machine. Excellent directory of poetry magazines in USA,
Canada and beyond. http://www.poetrymachine.com
2. Poetry Kit. Good listing for the UK, USA and elsewhere. http://www.poetrykit.org
Ezine Directories and Selected Webrings
1. John Labovitz's Ezine List. 4392 listings to 8th March 2000. http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/index.html
2. Every Poet.Comprehensive site with archives, resources, newsletter, forum and over 1300 links. http://www.everypoet.com
3. Poetry Webring. One of the internet's largest: well maintained: with
review, resources, competitions, etc. http://www.photoaspects.com/poetry
4. Web del Sol. Award-winning collaborative venture covering literary and other arts in the USA. http://www.webdelsol.com
5. Contributors List. Ezines recommended by webdelsol-featured poets. Useful listing of personal favourites. http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/p-links2.htm
6. Poetry Today Webring. Large webring of sites devoted to poetry and creative writing. http://www.poetrytodayonline.com
7. Poetry Pages. Approx. 160 poet's websites listed. http://www.poetrypages.com
8. Poem Online Somewhat commercial site with listings of poets, resources and poetry communities. http://www.poem.org
9. Haiku Link. Listings for haiku and other poetry sites. http://home.earthlink.net/%7Emissias/PoetryZone.html
10. Small Press Bulletin. Short listing of ezines and magazines. http://www.cruzio.com/~zerocity/presses.htm
11. OzPoet. Gateway to contemporary Australian poetry. http://www.tirralirra.com/discus/
12. New Hope International Review. Short reviews of poetry magazines and books: mostly UK and not ezines, but useful all the same. http://home.clara.net/nhi/online.htm
13. Links to Poets. Individual poet's sites. http://www.pmpoetry.com/linkspb.shtml.
14. PowWow. Some 50 + individual poet's sites listed. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1416/independent.html.
15. Hypertexts. Featured poet and good listing of individual poet's sites. http://www.thehypertexts.com/.
16. Poetry Kit. Good listing of UK ezines and individual poet's sites. http://www.poetrykit.org/.
17. Lollipop. Listing of UK small presses, news and publishing advice. http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/llpp/.
18. The Drowning Man. Directory of literary publications large and small. http://www.drowningman.net/
19. GreatWorks. Good listing of websites containing innovative writing. http://www.greatworks.org.uk/links.html
20. Find Poetry. Good listing of poetry ezines: submission free. http://www.findpoetry.com/searchnow/Poetry_Publishing/.
21. Write Words. Over 300 UK poetry magazines and ezines listed. http://www.writewords.org.uk/directory/
22. WritersArtists. Small group of internally-known poets: work and readings. http://www.writersartists.net/.
23. The Poem. News on UK poets and poetry: some 36 poet's websites listed. http://www.thepoem.co.uk/
24. LitRefs. Extensive listing of poets, magazines, publishers and more. http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/%7Etpl/lit/poetry.html
25. Pinko. Alternative British poetry: poets and references. http://www.pinko.org/1.html
26. Shearsman. Small press publisher's list: contemporary UK and USA. http://www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/links.html.
27. Jacket. Over 100 poetry contemporary magazines and resources listed. http://jacketmagazine.com/litlinks.html
28. Every Lit. Magazine. Just a listing, but one of the largest anywhere. http://everylitmag.tripod.com/Biglist.html
29. Verse. Contemporary poetry, with reviews and a good blogroll. http://versemag.blogspot.com/
Commercial
/ Popular Poetry
The following aim at a popular audience, and sometimes have a commercial angle.
1. Kill Devil. Very extensive site, presented in hearty nautical fashion. http://www.killdevilhill.com/
2. Net Poets. Poetry of love and the passion. http://www.netpoets.com
3. Love Poetry. Love poetry: old favourites and new submissions. http://www.lovepoetry.com
4. Shadow Poetry. Good range of genres and services. http://www.shadowpoetry.com
5. Cowboy Poetry. Family-orientated celebration of cowboy folklore. http://www.cowboypoetry.com/whatis.htm
6. Poetry.Com. Very popular site, but close to vanity publishing. http://www.poetry.com
7. iLovePoetry. Excellent range of classical poetry and contemporary. http://www.ilovepoetry.com
8. Starlight Cafe. Very fully-featured site. http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/
9. Poem Resource Websites. Popular poetry listed under numerous headings. http://poem.resource-websites.com/
Literary
Ezines and Online Magazines
A very small selection. Poetry Publishing Directories list over 3,000 small presses taking poetry, some 70% of which have Internet representation. Consult publications on markets and publishing.
1. Able Muse. http://www.ablemuse.com
2. Agni. http://webdelsol.com/AGNI
3. Ancient Heart Magazine. http://www.ancientheartmagazine.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
4. Arabesque Review. http://www.arabesquespress.org/
5. Archipelago. http://www.archipelago.orgI
6. Beloit Poetry Journal http://www.bpj.org/
7. Big Bridge. http://www.bigbridge.org
8. Chapman http://www.chapman-pub.co.uk/
9. Chatterhoochee Review. http://www.chattahoochee-review.org/index.htm
10. Cortland Review. http://www.cortlandreview.com
11. Cyber Oasis. http://www.sunoasis.com/oasis.html
12. Edge City Review. http://www.edge-city.com
13. Electroasylum. http://www.electroasylum.com
14. Fence. http://www.fencemag.com
15. Great Works. http://www.greatworks.org.uk/.
16. Jacket. http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html.
17. Long Shot Magazine. http://www.longshot.org
18. Maelstrom http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/6391/
19. Magma. http://magmapoetry.com/
20. Missouri Review. http://www.missourireview.org
21. Oyster Bay Review. http://www.levee67.com/obr/
22. Panic. http://homepages.which.net/~panic.brixtonpoetry/
23. Pivot. http://www.n2hos.com/acm/pivot.html
24. Ploughshares. http://www.pshares.org
25. Poetry Life. http://freespace.virgin.net/poetry.life/
26. Poetry Magazine. http://www.poetrymagazine.com
27. Poems That Go. http://www.poemsthatgo.com
28. Poetry London. http://www.poetrylondon.co.uk
29. Polyphony. http://www.geocities.com/polyphonymag/.
30. Prairie Schooner. http://www.unl.edu/schooner/psmain.htm
31. Rattle. http://www.rattle.com
32. Siglo. http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/siglo/
33. Slope. http://www.slope.org
34. Sycamore Review. http://www.sla.purdue.edu/sycamore
35. Thermopylae. http://www.gloria-brame.com/glory/ezine.htm
36. Vallum. http://www.vallummag.com/
British
and American Poetry Online
1. Poetry Archives. 3700 poems by 145 poets. http://www.emule.com/poetry
2. CMU Index of Canonical Verse. Shorter poems by some forty odd poets. http://eserver.org/poetry
3. America Poetry Texts. Multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm
4. Poetry Archives. 430 poets plus glossary and literary criticism. http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm
5. Academy of American Poets. Extensive selection. http://www.poets.org
6. American Verse Project. Includes text search facility. http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
7. Net Poetry. Includes online search facility for poems and poetry sites. http://www.netpoetry.com
8. The Poetry Pond. 44 sites listed, with presentation grading. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2928/
9. Hot Poetry Sites. Peter Howard's personal listing. http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/hotsites.htm
10. Bartleby. Full texts of many favourites. http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
11. Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. A very useful and extensive listing of sources, with more general information. http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/home.html.
12. Blackbird Archive. Contemporary poetry and reviews. http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n2/poetry.htm.
13. Representative Poetry Online. Database searchable by poet, title, keywords
or first/last line. Not exhaustive, but very useful. http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm
14. Forgotten Ground Regained. http://alliteration.net/.
Alliterative and accentual poetry, traditional and contemporary.
15. Twentieth Century Authors. Very full list of resources. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues1999/
december4/twentiethcentury.htm
16. The Poetry House. University of St. Andrew's guide to poetry across the English-speaking world.
17. UK Poetry Society's full-text digital library of English poetry magazines. http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/
18. Contemporary American Poetry Archive. Over 20 poets listed. http://newark.rutgers.edu/%7Elcrew/pbonline.html.
19. International Poetry Addresses. Addresses and links to over 3000 poems by 20th century authors. http://www.vulgarian.net/ipa/20th/index.htm#anchor221868.
20. Bookworm Search. Search engine specializing in literature and related matters. http://www.bookwormsearch.com/
Foreign
Poetry Online
1. European Poetry. Western European Studies Section. Excellent links to European literature sites. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
2. Russian Literature. Award-winning site for Russian literature and culture. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/
3. Non-European poetry. Short but very useful list of non-European literature sites. http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/country.html
4. Urdu poetry. You can find many sites through an Internet search. Or try: http://www.hallagulla.com/
5. Turkish poetry. 20th century poets In Turkish and English: some excellent translations. http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sibel/poetry/
6. Persian poetry. Classic and contemporary: English transliterations but no translations. http://tehran.stanford.edu/Literature/Poetry/
7. Hindi poetry. Packed with information, examples and translations. http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindiint.html
8. Chinese poetry. Comprehensive, translations of variable quality.http://www.chinapage.com/poetry9.html
9. Greek and Latin poetry. Excellent resources for classical studies. http://cc.purdue.edu/~corax/classicslinks.html
10. Japanese Poetry. With helpful notes and translations. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/index.html
11. Japanese Poetry. As before but with very extensive listings. http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~nagahata/JapanesePoetry.html
12. Poetry International Web. Bibliographies and translations of leading modern poets worldwide. http://greece.poetryinternational.org/
13. Scottish and European Poetry. Essentially a catalogue of works in the Scottish Poetry Library, but their EPIC project provides online Scots poetry and a short listing of poetry sites. http://www.spl.org.uk
14. World Language Poetry. Books, tapes and CDs of poetry in world's leading languages. http://www.worldlanguage.com
15. Poetry Portal. Overseas poetry sites are continually being added to http://www.poetry-portal.com. Site also features a new poet each month.
16. 300 Tang Poems. Contains some 320 poems, most with English translation. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/frame.htm.
Audio
OnLine
1. Conjunctions. Selections from 800 authors in 15 years. Some RealAudio recordings. http://www.conjunctions.com/av.htm
2. Internet Poetry Archive. Texts and RA recordings of Milosz, Heaney, Levine, Pinsky, etc. http://metalab.unc.edu/ipa
3. Latin and Greek Poets. Readings in original languages of poems by Sappho, Catullus and Virgil. http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/assignments/reading.html.
4. Urdu Poetry. Recordings of contemporary Urdu poets, often in concert. http://www.mushaira.org
5. Chinese Poetry. Classical Chinese poetry read in Mandarin. Texts on adjacent site. http://www.chinapage.org/readpoem.html
6. Poetry Archive. Online collection of poets reading their work. http://www.poetryarchive.org.
Multimedia
1. Poems that Go. Impressive site that unites words, music, design and movement. http://www.poemsthatgo.com
2. Kaldron. In depth treatment of visual poets. http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/kaldron.htm
3. Light and Dust Poets. Extensive anthology: includes visual poems and poems with graphics. http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lighthom.htm
4. Ubuweb. Visual, concrete and sound poetry. Now with good references. http://www.ubu.com
5. Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Large archive of concrete and visual poetry. http://www.rediscov.com/sackner.htm
Poetry
Events
1. Academy of American Poets. http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/5. Easy-to-use, redesigned site.
2. Contests. Yahoo's listing. http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/
Literature/Poetry/Writing/Contests
3. Poetry Portal. Competitions are listed on the R H sidepanel of http://www.poetry-portal.com/events.html
4. Online Poetry Workshops, Conferences and Boards. Part of extensive poetry about.com site. http://poetry.miningco.com/arts/poetrycs/workshopsboards/
5. Calendar of Events. Poetry Society of America's calendar of poetry events. http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-calendar.html
6. Poetry News. Articles from the UK Poetry Society's newsletter. http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/news/pnews.htm
7. Poetry Slam Inc. Information on poetry slams in USA, Canada and Europe. http://www.poetryslam./com
8. Wordworx. News and listings for the New Zealand scene. http://www.wordworx.co.nz/
9. World of Poetry. Ambitious, multimedia site. Promoting poetry as a living art in USA. http://www.worldofpoetry.org
10. US State Poetry Societies. Lists those that have websites. http://www.nfsps.com/links.htm
11. UK Poetry Society. Events with the Society. http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/news/events.htm
12. Martin Blyth. A individual look at the UK poetry scene. http://www.martinblyth.co.uk/
13. Poetry Society of America. Excellent listings of US poetry events and magazines. http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-links.html#colonies
14. Write Out Loud. Performance poetry in the UK: articles, messages and events. http://www.writeoutloud.net//public/index.php
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