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Select the highlighted URL addresses, and the links will take you to literary sites on the Internet around the world |
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Below, literary links & electronic magazines |
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Literary Kicks . . .
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/LitKicks.html
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The Electronic Literature Directory at
http://directory.eliterature.org/
is a valuable new resource for readers and writers of digital texts. Created and maintained by the Electronic Literature Organization, this searchable database provides the most comprehensive reference tool available anywhere for electronic literature. Currently the Directory catalogs over 360 authors, 560 works, and 80 publishers. The descriptive entries cover poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction that makes significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements. |
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Poetry International, Rotterdam |
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SULFUR . . .
in its 19 year run, with over 800 contributors in its 11,000 pages, and 46 issues, Sulfur established itself, in James Laughlin's words, as "the most important literary magazine which has explored and extended the boundaries of poetry". Running at an average of 225 pages per issue, sulfur's departments, as it were, included translations of new and undertranslated well-known poets, archival materials (unpublished writing by the great dead e.g., Pound, Crane, Williams, Loy etc), the inclusion of unknown and young poets, commentary (50 to 60 pages per issue), and resource materials including art, art criticism, archetypal psychology, archeology, and political commentary. |
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SLOPE
is a bi-monthly, online journal devoted to contemporary poetry being written around the globe in English. Contributors hail from countries including Australia, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The editors say that they encourage new and emerging writers, while continuing to publish award-winning and established poets. Slope occasionally features "sampler" issues. |
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CrossConnect
is a lively magazine with stylish photographic cover art, now celebrating three years of life on the Internet. CrossConnect is published in association with the University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writers House, on the net at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect. |
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Double Lucy . . .
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Archipelago is edited with flair and vigour by Katherine McNamara, and features stories, interviews, ruminative and sharply-pointed essays, and reviews. A constant focus is the business of publishing and editing. There are eight issues so far, and they are all available in the Acrobat PDF format for downloading if you wish to read a proper printed version, while the Internet-readable pages are just as stylish. You can find it on the Internet at http://www.archipelago.org. The Download Edition can be found at http://www.archipelago.org/download.htm
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The Poetry Project
http://www.poetryproject.com/
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Inscape
is a low-tech chapzine made in the Silicon Valley, USA by Instress Press. Issue #5 is devoted to British Poets, to wit: Tom Raworth, Miles Champion, Karlien van den Beukel, Kevin Nolan, John Wilkinson, Rod Mengham,
Anthony Barnett, Peter Larkin and J.H. Prynne. Inscape #5 was guest-edited by Drew Milne who has, or shortly will have, copies for the contibutors (and more). It will also be available from Spectacular Diseases c/o Paul Green. For contact information and a complete list of Instress chapbooks please visit the website at: http://home.sprintmail.com/~windhover |
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Duration Press
was founded upon the idea that there still remains considerable work to be done in the mapping of contemporary poetry. "It is our hope." the editors say, " that through our various projects--our chapbook series, our ongoing archive, & Duration: An Online Journal of International Poetry & Poetics at http://www.durationpress.com we might be able to participate in the mapping of a global landscape of contemporary poetry. At the heart of our project is the idea that through an effort to resist the traditional pitfalls of avant-garde propagandizing, we might be able to shift poetry's sight away from place / aesthetic specific movements & localized writing 'scenes,' in order to make livable the fact that poetry springs not from a singular place & / or aesthetic, but rather a multiplying of places, a multiplicity of voices, where we realize, as Jabčs has noted, 'Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as interpreter.'" |
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LitLine
For a large list of live links to literary publishers, magazines, websites and electronic magazine, visit Chris Abbott's LitLine, at http://www.litline.org/ |
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The Poetry Kit is a growing British site run by Ted Slade - a boy scout knife of useful listings, competition, opinions on vanity publishing, and other bits and pieces relating to poetry. At: http://www.poetrykit.org/ |
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ZYZZYVA, at http://www.zyzzyva.org, is the online home of the last word in west coast writers and artists. ZYZZYVA is a print journal and nonprofit literary organization based in San Francisco, CA. On their Web site they offer selections from the print journal, information about readings and workshops, and various literary links.
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Web Del Sol . . . http://www.webdelsol.com/ A US-based site with many links to literary magazine Internet home pages, especially American ones. Many quirky offerings and strange literary cul-de-sacs off the back alleys of the Internet. (They must have good taste - Jacket was on their list of top sites for December 1997.) C H A I N . . .
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~spahr/chain/ Forget the Bossanova, this site is really cute:
Elson Fróes at http://users.sti.com.br/efres delivers a mélange of literary, audio and visual treats from the high-rise jungles of São Paulo in Brazil. The links are a marvellous lucky dip: from Catalan poetry to "Declaración de El Chopo 1996", from "the universe ... which others call the library" to Servidor de Arte Postal to the Russian Avant Garde web ring. Put some Mocha Java in the coffee percolator, dust off that old Stan Getz LP, and crank up the volume! |
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The Electronic Poetry Center . . .
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ |
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Angel Exhaust . . .
http://angel-exhaust.offworld.org/
[above] Demonstration against compulsory fees at Cambridge University, photo copyright © John Tranter, 1997. |
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The Saint
was my hero when I was young. I always assumed that his creator Leslie Charteris was as tall, slim and blue-eyed as his creation. Not so: his photos show him as a stocky pugnacious chap, with a resemblance to Lee Kuan Yew. No wonder: he was born Leslie Bowyer Yin in Singapore on May 12, 1907, and changed his name by deed-poll in 1926. He died in England in 1993. His father was a wealthy Chinese surgeon; his mother was English. The Internet site The Saintly Bible is the work of fan Dan Bodenheimer, it will tell you everything you ever needed to know about Mr Yin and his alter ego, the cool and elegant Simon Templar, at
http://www.saint.org/welcome.htm
Since 1992, the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has combined an on-line archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts (some of which are publicly available) with a library-based Center housing hardware and software suitable for the creation and analysis of text. Contact The Electronic Text Center, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA. Ixion magazine appears quarterly from Langport in the British Isles at http://www.btinternet.com/~ixionmag/. Edited by Martin Booth and Lionel Phillips, it contains visual art, essays on art and poetry, and miscellaneous reviews. Ixion welcomes contributions for publication. Reality X appears regularly from Portland, Maine, at http://realitytimes.com It's a photojournal, arts and writing magazine, with a refreshingly local ambience.
Big Bridge, at http://www.bigbridge.org, a webzine of poetry and everything else, edited by Michael Rothenberg and Wanda Phipps, includes a Feature Chapbook (the mid-year 1998 issue features Philip Whalen's "Mark Other Place" illustrated by Art Editor Nancy Davis offering many unpublished Whalen poems, bibliography, bio and photo). A regular poetry section includes Bernadette Mayer, Duncan McNaughton, Bridget Meeds and others. Big Bridge publishes novels e.g. David Meltzer's Lamb. There's a Little Mags section offering web space at no charge to low circulation print mags (issue of Mike & Dale's include selections from Tom Clark, Leslie Davis, Anselm Hollo, interview with Ed Dorn and more). Big Bridge was recently chosen by Poetry@The Mining Company's Best of the Net Award. |
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The Transcendental Friend |
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The Cortland Review at http://www.cortlandreview.com is an American-based online journal that is a bonanza of poetry for readers of all flavors. Editor, J.M. Spalding. All work that appears in TCR is in text and REAL AUDIO. The Poetry Kit
From the leafy groves of Surrey, England, the Poetry Kit at http://www.poetrykit.org/ brings views, interviews and news of the British Scene. Editor, Ted Slade.
C A N A D A Sound Eye - Irish Poetry & the Universe of
Writing GRAPH: Irish Cultural Review
The Oxford University Poetry Society at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~oups/ has a membership of about 150 and sponsors 14-16 poetry events per academic year at various Oxford, UK, venues. It has hosted readings by Seamus Heaney, Les Murray, Paul Muldoon, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy, John Fuller, Elizabeth Jennings and Glyn Maxwell, among many others. Lectures in its series entitled "The State of Poetry" have been given by Michael Schmidt, Jon Silkin and Peter Forbes. Other events include student readings and workshops with established poets. Panic Attack: Scenes from Modern Life is an online literary magazine produced by graduates of Emerson College in Boston, MA, and current Emerson MFA degree candidates. They accept submissions of fiction, poetry, and humor from anyone in the world. The site is interesting for the Emblaze recordings of authors reading their work - you don't need an audio plug-in for your browser: Emblaze automatically downloads a Java applet which does the work then quietly evaporates! Editor-in-Chief, Jessica Purdy -- at http://www.panic-attack.com.
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The Literary Review
is mainly a print journal, but they have links with the Web Del Sol Internet site and publish a number of small electronic chapbooks.
Mailing address: 285 Madison Avenue, |
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