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Select the highlighted URL addresses, and the links will take you to literary sites on the Internet around the world

 
 

Below, literary links & electronic magazines

 
 


Links to sites focusing on Australian literature at litaustlinks.html

For print and electronic small presses, go to linksmallpress.html

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The Beat Page logo The Beat Page . . . is a personal project of Ken Rumsey ("with a little help from my friends") and is intended to provide internet users with access to "all things Beat" on the web.The site is elegantly designed and full of useful links to background material, including a site that markets the marvelous photos of Fred McDarrah, Ken Rumseythe great photo-journalist of the movement, who snapped just about every poetry reading, jazz improvisation and inhalation of the era. Photo (below right) - Ken Rumsey.
At: http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/index.html

Literary Kicks . . . http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/LitKicks.html
Literary Kicks is another site devoted to the Beat Generation, set up by fan Levi Asher in Brooklyn. Lots of photos, anecdotes, and tall tales of beatnik glory. Loose, friendly. Go on, open a bottle, kick your sandals off, and relax!


photo of San Francisco poet Bob Kaufman
http://www.milkmag.org/ was created in 1999 by Larry Sawyer and Lina ramona Vitkauskas. It stemmed directly from the creation of milk magazine in its print incarnation by Larry Sawyer. As a past editor of Nexus magazine, Larry was fortunate to work with/publish distinguished poets such as Jack Micheline, Ira Cohen, Gerard Malanga, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gustaf Sobin, Frank Lima, Paul Violi, Sheila E. Murphy, Linda Lerner, Paul Bowles, and Charles Henri Ford. With http://www.milkmag.org/ he hopes to make contact with the spirit of poetry via the electronic pulse of this strange machine called the Internet . . . infusing it with a life it lacks, the creative sweat and blood of the inspiring artists contained in milk!Photo (detail) of San Francisco beat legend Bob Kaufman in the Trieste coffee bar, by A.D.Winans

 
 

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.

Electronic Literature logo The Directory provides easy access to one of the most exciting and fastest-growing bodies of cutting-edge literature. Among the new forms of writing represented here are hypertexts and other interactive pieces, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and works that allow reader collaboration. Directory users can also enjoy the enhancements that the new technology brings to traditional literature, such as streaming audio readings of poetry by masters ranging from e.e. cummings and Dylan Thomas to contemporary Pulitzer Prize winners.

The Directory contains live links to Web works, publishing sites, and author home pages, making it a prime portal for readers. Users can search the Directory for individual authors or works, or they can browse numerous categories such as poetry, fiction, hypertext, or animated text.

 
 


Fumeur, from Readme # 3
R e a d m e Edited by Gary Sullivan - a quarterly online journal of poetics featuring interviews, essays and reviews germane to contemporary poetry. Poetry published only in tandem with author interviews and/or critical prose, except in cases of poem-as-reading/critique. Queries welcome. A letters page will be included in issues from 2000. The URL Internet address: http://www.jps.net/nada/
Please communicate via email, or mail to:
Gary Sullivan, 558 11th Street, #1B, Brooklyn, NY 11215.
Photograph borrowed from readme #3 ("Steve Abbott") thanks to Alysia Abbott.

 
 


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The East Village highlights art and poetry from China, Japan, etc. and North America, as well as Australia and Europe. Video, audio, webart and poetics appear regularly. Special editions, accessible onsite, are "Video Tokyo", "Boston 1999", "Poetries of Canada" and the new "LA | NY", with work from over 60 contributors. Editor, Jack Kimball. The URL Internet address:
http://www.theeastvillage.com

 

Poetry International, Rotterdam
at http://www.poetry.nl is a government-sponsored foundation working to promote interest in and foster love for the art of poetry. It organizes the annual Poetry International Festival, the Children's Poetry Festival, a National Poetry Day, and various international exchange projects. Poetry International also tries to bring poetry to a wider public by posting poems in public areas, on buildings, in railway carriages, even on garbage trucks. Another project is Poetry International's interactive CD-ROM Via Poetica. The Foundation does essential work as an international poetry archive and documentation centre.

The heart of the Foundation's work is the annual poetry festival. From humble beginnings in 1970, the Poetry International Festival has grown to become one of the leading poetry platforms in the world. Every year about forty poets from various countries gather in Rotterdam for the week-long festival, to present their work in their own language and to exchange views. Selections from their poetry are translated into Dutch for the festival - often for the first time. English translations are also provided for the international audience. Afterwards, festivalgoers can relax with life music in the theater café. The 2001 festival will take place from 16 to 22 June 2001.
If you want to view the site, please be patient - it is full of Javascript and large, slow-loading graphics, and takes quite a while to download.

Postal address: William Boothlaan 4, 3012 VJ Rotterdam, the Netherlands - Telephone: +31/10/282 27 77 - Fax: +31/10/282 27 75
Email poetry@luna.nl

 

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.

Special issues or supplements included the work of Michel Leiris, George Oppen, Paul Celan, Ana Mendieta, Hungarian Poetry, East German poetry, Peruvian Photography, Paul Blackburn, Antonin Artaud, the Vancouver Robin Blaser Conference, Anglophone Poetry outside the US and UK, and Into The Past (pre-20th century poetry and poetics).

Sulfur logo All but 3 of the 46 issues are still available for sale - a number are only a few dollars. For a backlist of available issues, write to sulfur's editor, clayton eshleman, at
210 washtenaw road, ypsilanti mi 48197 usa,
or e-mail eshleman at ceshleman@mediaone.net
In September 2000 a full Sulfur site will be established at www.webdelsol.com Until then, some sample tables of content, and work from several issues, can be accessed via
http://www.emich.edu/public/english/sulfur/sulfur.html

 
 

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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Recent or upcoming examples include New Avant Poetry (Issue 5), Contemporary Womens Poetry (Issue 6) and New Welsh and British Poetry (Issue 8). Poets featured and/or forthcoming in Slope include James Tate, Forrest Gander, Heather McHugh, Dara Wier, Franz Wright, Eric Pankey, Eugen Jebeleanu, Matthew Rohrer, Mary Jo Bang, Ron Silliman, Joe Wenderoth, John Kinsella, Timothy Liu, Margot Schilpp, Pam Brown, Peter Finch, Kevin Hart, Peter Minter, Brian Henry, Lee Upton, Katy Lederer, Drew Milne, Mark Bibbins, Coral Hull, Graham Foust, Jonathan Monroe, Susan Schultz, Louis Armand, Spencer Selby, Christine Hume, Javant Biarujia, Charles Bernstein, and many others. You can find it hiding under a rigmarole of Javascript routines at http://www.slope.org/


 
 


BeeHive . . .
A special issue of BeeHive, the Hypertext Hypermedia Literary Journal, at http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/, devotes the bulk of its space to a selection of poets from New York and San Francisco. The section includes an introduction by guest editor Alan Kaufman, photographic portraits of New York and San Francisco poets by Ralph Ackerman, plus a wide selection of poetry from both coasts. Among the poets included are David Meltzer, Eileen Myles, David Trinidad, Harold Norse, plus a sampling from New York's Unbearables, poems from the San Francisco group 9x9 and many others. BeeHive is produced and published by PERCEPTICON and is under the creative direction of Talan Memmott.

 
 


Zuzu's Petals
, with more than seven thousand 7000+ organized links to helpful resources for writers, artists, performers, and researchers, has a new and permanent home at http://www.zuzu.com/.
The editors say their mission is to expand the influence of poetry beyond its traditionally academic audience and to make quality writing an everyday craving. Mailing address: The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource, P.O. Box 4853/ Ithaca, NY 14852/ USA, or email to info@zuzu.com.

 
 


Australian poet John Kinsella, now working in Cambridge, England, has started a poetry discussion group called poetryetc, available at http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/poetryetc/ . . . worth checking out.

 
 


Those Australians! ... another Australian poet Cassie Lewis, now working in California, has started a poetry discussion group called Poetry Espresso, available at http://www.topica.com/lists/PoetryEspresso . . . also worth checking out.

 
 

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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.
Hmmm . . . looking at their cover, I wonder how librarians alphabetise it: under "C", or much lower down the listings among the X-Files, under "X"?

 
 

Little Lucies

Double Lucy . . .
Outlet Magazine & Double Lucy Books
P.O. Box 9013, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA.
On the Internet at http://users.lanminds.com/dblelucy

Outlet Magazine publishes poetry, fiction and criticism, loosely centered around a common theme. Themes have so far included fairy tales, ornament, and weather/maps. Please visit our website to view excerpts from current & previous issues, which include work by Franklin Bruno, Norma Cole, MTC Cronin, Brenda Iijima, Lily James, Tan Lin, Pamela Lu, Yedda Morrison, Laura Moriarty, Michelle Murphy, Susan Smith Nash, Christopher Reiner, Camille Roy, Jocelyn Saidenberg, and many others. [Sample copies: $5/ea. Subscriptions: $10/yr (2 issues)]
      Outlet (4/5) Weathermap due out this [1999] fall [Northern fall, that is] will include new poetry and prose by Norma Cole, Stephen Ratcliffe, Kathy Lou Schultz, Liz Waldner & many others, plus an interview with Kathleen Fraser and a history of women publishers at the Poetry Project, New York City.
      CALL FOR WORK - Outlet (6) Stars Astronomy, astrology, celebrity, catastrophe, destiny, romance, navigation, wishes, fortune-telling, constellations. The passage of time. Hemispheres, seasons. Prophecy, heaven. Leonardo da Vinci/di Caprio. Submission postmark period: January 1-February 15, 2000. Replies by: April 15, 2000. The issue will appear during [the Northern] Summer, 2000. [Sample copies: $5/ea. Subscriptions: $10/yr (2 issues). Checks to E. Treadwell]
      The editors say: "We do not accept email submissions. When first submitting, please consider a 5 page limit. Please enclose a SASE for response. Please note that submissions of chapbook manuscripts are by request only. We look forward to reading your work. Thank you."


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

 
 


Rain Taxi Review of Books Rain Taxi Review of Books
is a quarterly publication featuring reviews of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction,with an emphasis on works that push the boundaries of language, narrative, and genre.
Press profiles, interviews, and in-depth reviews reflect Rain Taxi's commitment to spreading the word about the best in contemporary literature. Editor - Eric Lorberer.

 
 

The Poetry Project http://www.poetryproject.com/
The Poetry Project burns like red hot coal in New York's snow.
                    - Allen Ginsberg
Since its founding in 1966, the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in New York City has been a forum for public literary events and a resource for writers. Over the past 34 years, hundreds of poets, writers and performers, including Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, John Cage, Sam Shepard, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Terri McMillan, Robert Creeley, Alice Notley, Bernadette Mayer and Kenneth Koch have shared their work at the Poetry Project. With three different reading and performance series a week, plus lectures and special events, the Poetry Project is a vital and hospitable hub for the writing community in New York City. The Poetry Project was the scene of the only joint reading by Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg and has been the site of historic memorials to poets Paul Blackburn, Robert Duncan, Charles Reznikoff, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby and many others. Staffed completely by poets (but please don't hold that against them) the Poetry Project challenges, informs and inspires working writers, while remaining accessible to the general public. Now in its 33rd season, the Poetry Project continues to offer encouragement and resources to poets, writers, artists and performers whose work is experimental, innovative and pertinent to writing that proposes fresh aesthetic, cultural, philosophical and political approaches to contemporary society.

 
 

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.'"
      In issue one of Duration magazine you'll find work by Elizabeth Treadwell, Kristin Prevallet, Tchicaya U Tam'si, Patrick Durgin, Leonard Brink, Gary Sullivan, Beth Anderson, Sheila Murphy, Hoa Nguyen, Kevin Magee, Jesse Glass, Spencer Selby, Jeffrey Jullich, and Rodrigo Garcia Lopes.

 
 

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/

 
 

photo of Carrie Amestoy heretic house publishing at http://www.amestoy.com
Poet C.E. Amestoy has built a high-tech, interactive art site, featuring stylish photography and lines of thought-provoking poetry that fade in and out, reflecting on the making of the millennium and indulgence in high-tech heresy.
Amestoy book cover Within these walls multimedia art collides with a creative revolution of bon vivant propaganda and metaphysical delight. Amestoy appears to have invitied over Lao Tze, Doctor Seuss and Carl Jung for a night of gin and cards and trouble in all hemispheres. It's the good life.

Poets & Writers in New York City has been around for more than a decade, and the experience shows. Their Internet site is mature and feature-rich, with heaps of information about US contests and grants and awards, residencies, a directory of writers, literary links, news from the writing world, a bookstore, and publishing advice. Their eponymous magazine is equally full of useful information. Check it out at http://www.pw.org/


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/

 
 


TrAce
is a busy 24-hour online community for writers and readers across the world, based at Nottingham Trent University in England, and featuring Internet-based writers-in-residence. TrAce includes members from the United States, Australia, and 60 other nations from Singapore to Venezuela. It was founded in 1995 by novelist Sue Thomas with a US$500,000 grant from the Arts Council of England. Their links page is full of good things, especially art/writing sites that push the envelope. At http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)115 9486360, Fax: +44 (0)115 9486364, Email: trace@ntu.ac.uk

 
 

Prague Review No 6 cover


The Prague Revue --
Bohemia's Journal of International Literature -- publishes prose and poetry in English from contributors all around the world. You can obtain a sample copy for USD$10 plus $2 shipping. Or visit their web site at http://www.praguepivo.com/

Fiction Editors: D.Lázló Conhaim, Max Munson, Jason Penazzi-Russell; Poetry Editors: Louis Armand, Todd Morimoto, Will Pritts; Managing Editor: Clare Wallace; Assistant Editor: Rachel Earls

Distributed by: Small Press Distributors, Berkeley, California, US.A.; Marginal, Ontario, Canada

Published by The Prague Revue Cultural Foundation, V jámê 7, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic


 
 

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.

New Zealand Flag wavingSouthern Ocean Review at http://www.book.co.nz is an electronic literary magazine published quarterly from Dunedin in New Zealand, containing fiction, poetry, criticism, comment and essays. SOR also publishes special features from time to time. Founded in October 1996, the magazine contains up to ten works of fiction and up to fifteen poets in each issue. As well as being online, a paper version is published. Subscription and price details on their book company page. Graphic: New Zealand flag waving in the stiff breeze from the Southern Ocean.

 
 


The Barcelona Review
. . . short stories, interviews, et cetera, stylishly edited by Jill Adams. Check it out at http://www.barcelonareview.com/

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 . . . at http://www2.hawaii.edu/~spahr/chain/
From the North Pacific . . . Since 1993, Chain has been publishing a yearly issue of work. Each issue features the work of around seventy people and is about 250 pages long. The editors (Jena Osman, Juliana Spahr and Janet Zweig) say: "Chain started with publishing mainly poetry. Now we publish photographs, essays, operas, performance transcripts, plays, sculptures, paintings, and other forms. Chain also emphasizes work by new or emerging artists and collaborative and mixed genre work. Each issue focuses on a topic. Past topics have included gender and editing, documentary, mixed media and hybrid genres, processes and procedures, and different languages. The topic allows Chain’s editors to switch the editorial question that they ask each piece of work submitted from “is this a great piece of art” to “does this piece of art tell us something about the topic that we didn’t otherwise know.” This makes Chain a little rougher around the edges, a little less aesthetically predictable."

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!

 
 

The Electronic Poetry Center . . . http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
Based at the State University of New York at Buffalo, this is a large site devoted to formally innovative contemporary American and other poetry, with an emphasis on so-called "Language poetry". buffalo
The Center provides access to electronic resources in the new poetries including RIF/T and other electronic poetry journals, the Poetics List archives, an author library of electronic poetic texts, and direct links to numerous related electronic resources. It also offers information about contemporary print little magazines and small presses engaged in poetry and poetics, and an extensive collection of soundfiles of poets reading their work, as well as the archive of LINEbreak, the radio interview series. The EPC is directed by Loss Pequeño Glazier. The initial homepage graphic is slow-loading . . . but aren't they all? [ They must have good taste, too - Jacket was their "featured site" for November 1997.]

 
 

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Oyster Boy . . .
a print and online quarterly journal of fiction and poetry - editorials with an edge, winner of a number of awards for design and fiction publishing, and part of the Literary Arts WEBring, at: http://www.levee67.com/obr/ (left, a recent cover)

 
 

Angel Exhaust . . . http://angel-exhaust.offworld.org/ Cambridge University demonstration
It must be exhausting being an angel, which is perhaps why this English literary Internet magazine (with whisper-thin links to Cambridge University) hasn't been updated for what seems like donkeys' years. Its print version is more commonly met with, often in darkened pubs and glittering London cafés. It is socially aware and very present-day, with a penchant for flinty historical cultural analysis.

[above] Demonstration against compulsory fees at Cambridge University, photo copyright © John Tranter, 1997.
Cambridge poet Thom Gunn
Listen in on the quarrels of rival poets in the ivied halls, puzzle with them as they attempt to unravel the hierophantic obliquities of Jeremy Prynne, and share their angst as they compare their measley achievements with the dazzling epyllia dashed off by the Giants of Yesteryear like Sam Coleridge and Thom Gunn. Then relax with a quart of bitter at the Duck and Bucket, and watch the River Cam drift by in the gloaming.
Photo of erstwhile Cambridge poet Thom Gunn (left) in San Francisco, copyright © John Tranter, 1991

 
 


The Poetry Society . . .
deep in the winding alleys of Covent Garden, London, England, the Poetry Society publishes «Poetry Review» and does good works, at http://www.poetrysoc.com. Their e-mail address: poetrysoc@dial.pipex.com.

 
  saint figure Leslie Charteris

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.htmsaint masthead
 

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.
E-mail to etext@virginia.edu and on the Internet at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ Tel. 804 924-3230, fax 804 924-1431.

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

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.
 

 
 

  The Transcendental Friend

 
 

cosmonaut The Transcendental Friend (a journal of poetry, poetics, art & criticism) is updated on the first of every month, and will present several regular sections, including A Critical Dictionary, The Bestiary, Dialectic, and a Project. Clunky images of Russian cosmonauts beguile the viewer. Something like the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics were it edited by Bataille, Coleridge & Kierkegaard, perhaps . . . you can find your Friend at http://www.morningred.com/friend, and the editor, Garrett Kalleberg, can be e-mailed at mailto:editor@morningred.com.

 
 


conjunctions Conjunctions is a large and finely printed magazine published in the Spring and Fall of each year by Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504, where John Ashbery currently enjoys a chair. Editor Bradford Morrow says: "«Conjunctions» publishes innovative fiction, poetry, criticism, drama, art and interviews by both emerging and established writers.Conjunctions Eye to Eye issue cover For over a decade and a half, «Conjunctions»' specific contribution to the literary community has been to provide a forum for the now over 800 writers and artists whose work challenges accepted forms and modes of expression, experiments with language and thought, and is fully realized art."
      The stylish Web site is growing all the time, and the Web «Audio Vault» contains (late 1999) thirty-two recordings in Real Audio format including the voices of Robert Ashley (a favorite of Jacket's editor), Antonin Artaud, Chinua Achebe, Italo Calvino, Lydia Davis and others. Around four hundred works from the past thirty-two issues of «Conjunctions» are archived here, at http://www.conjunctions.com/

flash point


FlashPøint
travels along the frontier where the arts & politics clash . . . at
  http://www.flashpointmag.com/
In a recent issue among the poems and prose you can find a thorough appraisal of the Sokal hoax affair. The editors say:   "In FlashPøint the art is pour l'art, the politics without manifesto. Art and politics clash, pass in the night, interpenetrate, leave no peace. Beauty is not only difficult, it's downright problematic. Like graffiti on brownstone: blight and beauty, beauty and blight . . . but dancing!"

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.
 
Limestone Poetry Magazine at http://www.limested.dircon.co.uk/ is edited by Ted Burford in London, and is open for submissions.

C A N A D A
Lest Canada should feel neglected: two strong literary sites:
The Capilano Review - http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/dept/TCR/
was founded in Canada in 1972, and has published some of the finest fiction, poetry, drama and visual art in Canada and throughout the world The magazine has won five National Magazine Awards, two Western Magazine Awards and a citation from the Canadian Studies Association. They have published Phyllis Webb, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, Evelyn Lau, Susan Crean, Roy Kiyooka, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Robin Blaser, Brian Fawcett, John Newlove, Duncan McNaughton, bill bissett, Audrey Thomas and numerous other internationally acclaimed writers and artists.
 
The Edgewise Café is another Canadian site, from Vancouver, mainly featuring poetry and strong visuals. Their blurb: "The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre is a non-profit organization whose mandate is to make poetry and new media accessible to all members of society. We assist Canadian poets and writers in expanding their potential through an electronic forum, to reach their community as well as an international audience. By exploiting communications technology, we provide poets, multimedia artists, and youth the opportunity to use, learn, and create while expanding their audience. The Edgewise ElectroLit Centre operates as a research site as well, to explore interactive media and technology. We encourage experimentation with electronic media in the literary arts with a videoconferenced poetry reading series, a website that is also an electronic magazine, a virtual café and weekly virtual writing workshop in real time." At: http://www.edgewisecafe.org/

Sound Eye - Irish Poetry & the Universe of Writing
is a new site, growing fast, with pages for poets such as Brian Coffey, Randolph Healy, Trevor Joyce, Michael Smith and Tom Raworth. The editors say that the content will focus on the innovative edge to Irish poetry, and there will also be a full range of supporting materials, including review and survey articles, bibliographies, and news of relevant readings, festivals and conferences.

GRAPH: Irish Cultural Review
at http://www.iol.ie/~graphmag/ also brings you things Irish. Co-editor Peter Sirr also directs the Irish Writers' Centre, at http://www.iol.ie/~iwc/

An Oxford Quad

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.

 
 

The Literary Review


 

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,
Madison, NJ 07940.
Phone 201-443-8564,
and e-mail tlr@fdu.edu Check out the Web site at http://webdelsol.com/tlr/

 
 


Free Reference sites . . .
the Internet Public Library at the University of Michigan School of Information in Ann Arbor, MI, offers an Online Literary Criticism Collection which contains 1,454 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period, as well as thousands of other book, newspaper and magazine references on other topics. Free, at http://www.ipl.org/
 
The site called "My Virtual Reference Desk" is free, and it's chockablock full of encyclopædias, dictionaries, atlases, almanacs, thesauruses and reference books of all kinds, at http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
 
But the king gorilla is Martindale's The Reference Desk, at http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html - a gigantic free home-made collection of Internet links for researching everything from the time in Uzbekistan to how to tie the non-slip climber's knot to poetry magazines to cellular biology to the shipping news.
 
A full dimension larger than reference sites are the SEARCH ENGINES, sites which allow you to find any site on earth, including reference sites! Jacket's current favourite is Google Search at http://www.google.com/ which is fast and very clever, and seems to know exactly what you want. (Anyone remember the unimaginably large number known as a "googleplex"? That's how many sites they trawl.)
 
Another useful old favorite is
ProFusion, free at http://profusion.ittc.ukans.edu/ at the University in Kansas, which takes your search details and submits them to half a dozen different search engines, presenting you with a brief summary of each of the thousands of answers they give you. This sure ain't Kansas, Toto!
 
Looking up POET and MONEY on ProFusion gave Jacket fifty search results, by the way, including an intense and mournful fragment of free verse on the theme of poverty by the immensely rich L. Ron Hubbard (the inventor of Scientology), and a list of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, including the immensely rich Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney and L.Ron Hubbard . . . hmmm . . . the Internet certainly throws up some fascinating connections!

 
 


pin&noteMore sites are being added as we speak . . . Say hi, e-mail your comments and notify us of your favorite literary sites, to jtranter@jacket.zip.com.au (please note that I CANNOT consider unsolicited submissions of poetry, much as I'd like to)

 
 

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