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Our List of Poetry Resources on the Web
Academy of American Poets
This has been completely redone
since its earlier incarnation. It now features various "exhibits"
of poems that have been "curated" by different poets: poems of
love selected by Marilyn Hacker, poems of work selected by Philip
Levine, poems of grief selected by Edward Hirsch, and poems of
ancestry selected by Toi Derricotte.
Carolyn Forche
Well worth listing -- She recommends a long list of links to other poetry sources,
including home pages of poets Nazim Hikmet, Marina Tsvetaeva and
(in Spanish only) Cesar Vallejo, as well as numerous human rights
organizations such as Amnesty International.
Audre Lorde
This is a tribute to Audre Lorde, including some of her poems, in
Standards, a journal of multicultural studies produced at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Boston Review
This was one of my favorite pages. The review contains a number of
"poetry samplers" in which a relatively new poet is introduced by
a more established poet (Jeff Clark by Heather McHugh, Cal
Bedient by Bob Hass, Cynthia Huntington by Donald Hall, and so
on). Also check out "Letter to Horace" by Joseph Brodsky in the
Greatest Hits section, and the introduction to Vietnamese poetry,
both old and new, by Nguyen Ba Chung.
Heather McHugh
I particularly liked
Heather McHugh's home page. It had that eccentric personal touch
of a page written by the poet herself, rather than by a fan, an
agent, a publishing company wanting to sell books, and so on, as
so many writers' pages seem to be.
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's
The St. Mark's, of course. Pretty cool.
Boston Book Review
I included this because it was one site I came up with
looking for Sharon Olds. It includes a review of her book "The
Wellspring," along with a generous selection of excerpts, and
also a review of "Infanta" by Erin Belieu.
Internet Poetry Archive
"Internet Poetry Archive" seems somewhat of a misnomer, but this
is a pretty impressive presentation of Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw
Milosz, and Philip Levine, including audio readings. This site
was recommended by Carolyn Forche on her home page.
Rita Dove
A selection of poems by Rita Dove, linked to other African-American
poets including Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton,
and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Paris Review
The site is pretty elaborate, as you
might expect since I assume it's put out by the publishing
company as a marketing tool. However, this actually includes a
generous sampling of the work in the issue.
Bellingham Review
Including poems by Tess Gallagher,
Gary Soto, and others, with a poem I particularly enjoyed by
Richard Chess, "Shekinah."
Web del Sol
This page incorporates a variety of literary outlets, including North American Review, ZYZZYVA and AGNI,
with samples of poetry from their current issues.
Ploughshares
This includes samples from current and past issues (as well as submission guidelines). The Spring 1997 issue was edited by Yusef Komunyakaa.
Atlantic Unbound:
Poetry Pages
Web version of The Atlantic Monthly, including an extensive
selection of poetry published in past issues of the Atlantic
(Robert Pinsky, Mary Oliver, Jane Kenyon, Galway Kinnell,and so forth),
an extensive "audible anthology," and various other items of interest:
Pinsky reading excerpts of his translation of Dante, excerpts
from the first issue of the Atlantic in 1857 with poems by Ralph
Waldo Emerson and others, Dana Gioia's article "Can Poetry Matter?"
and follow-up correspondence.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Not a bad poet, and more important, one of PC Magazine's Top
100 Web Sites.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
MOMA has a fantastic site if you're looking for some nonverbal
inspiration. It currently features paintings by Willem de
Kooning and stills from the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1997 Exhibitions), as
well as "Objects of Desire-The Modern Still Life" (Current Exhibitions).
The Nation
Having trouble finding a publisher for your book? You might want
to take a look at the centerfold in the current digital issue
of The Nation, a chart of "the increasing conglomerization of the
publishing world," for a possible explanation.
Anthology of French Poetry in French
Poets & Writers Magazine
This site includes P&W's link to a Literary E-zine List.
The list includes real e-zines, online versions
of print journals, and literary search engines. Some of the links on our
list are there, along with many others.
DoubleTake
A new high-quality magazine that includes poetry, fiction, and documentary photography. It takes
its title, in fact, from a poem by Seamus Heaney that appears in each issue:
...The utter, self-revealing
Double-take of feeling....
Zuzu's Petals
An enormous list of resources and an ezine too.
The Albany Poetry Workshop
An interactive forum for poets and writers hosted by Scott Reid. Accepts submissions from guests for online display and critique by readers.
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