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Poetry Web Sites

 

Poetry

Central for Study of Poetry Online

  • The Academy of American Poets - Home
    • http://www.poets.org/
    • This is the best all around site for poetry on the web. It includes featured articles on poetry, an archive of poets' works, criticism, web links, the listening booth and more. We will visit here often.
  • Electronic Poetry Center Home Page
    • http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
    • "The EPC serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics produced at the University at Buffalo as well as elsewhere on the Internet. Our aim is simple: to make a wide range of resources centered on contemporary experimental and formally innovative poetries an immediate actuality."
    • This site is also amazing. We will visit it often as well.
  • Poets & Writers
    • http://www.pw.org/
    • This website is directed mainly to writers rather than readers, but it is useful nonetheless.
  • Poetry Society of America
    • http://www.poetrysociety.org/
    • Counts itself the oldest society for poetry in America. There are some gems in its pages, including Editors on on Poetry, in which they offer some things they look for and hope to avoid in poems they publish, and
    • First Loves, in which they "ask poets to write about the poem or poems they considered 'first loves"--those which captivated and haunted them, and inspired their love for poetry."
  • Poetry Daily, a new poem every day.
    • http://www.poems.com/
    • Publishes on the web a new poem daily as well as review new books. They archive the material from the past year.
  • Diacenter for the Arts
    • http://www.diacenter.org/index.html
    • Good site for Audio Readings of some Contemporary Poets
    • also fantastic Artists' Web Projects
  • The Open Scroll  
    • A site where new poets post their poetry and receive critical responses
  • Pilot-Search
    • http://www.pilot-search.com/
    • A search engine devoted to literary searches

Meta-sites for Poetry links

Audio/Video Poetry On-line

Audio/Video pages

  • Voices and Vision
    • http://www.learner.org/collections/multimedia/literature/vvseries/vvspot/index.html
    • This site, sponsored by the Annenberg CPB Project, offers a video clip from the video series for each of the poets on the site.
  • Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Audio Archives
    • http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/audio.html
    • This is DiaCenter's audio archive page
    • Links to many contemporary poets
    • including Robert Haas's "Meditation at Lagunitas"
  • Poetry Shows & Video Archives from About.com's search pages;
    • http://poetry.about.com/msubvid.htm?pid=2734&cob=
    • excellent links to the new scene of video/Internet broadcasts of poetry.
  • (Spoken) Words and Music
    • http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/SpokenWord/ -
    • Sony's two hour broadcast of poets discussing their work:
    • Gil Scott-Heron; Nikki Giovanni, Carl Hancock Rux; Sarah Jones, Jessica Care Moore; Sekou Sundiata, and Washington, D.C. poet Laini Mataka.
  • Sundiata, Sekou
    • Promo on his book with audio for four poems.
  • Audio Poetry Archives & Anthologies from About.com
  • ABCNew's Audio Page for Poetry
    • http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/poets_corner.html
    • Most links to their audio files come from the Listening Booth. The links are no longer maintained. We have to wait to see it this page is developed.
  • The Internet Poetry Archive Home Page
    • http://metalab.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/
    • from The University of North Carolina Press
    • makes available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets.
  • The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Exhibits
    • http://www.poets.org/lit/litfrmst.htm
    • Click on The Listening Booth
  • An Audible Anthology
    • http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/aaindx.htm
    • from Atlantic Unbound
  • Pilot-Search: Poetry : Audio Poetry
    • http://pilot-search.com/links/Poetry/Audio_Poetry/
    • Search page's links for audible poetry online
  • HarperCollins
    • http://www.harpercollins.com/audioexcerpts/audio3.htm
    • excerpts from their audio collection of literature--mixed genres.
  • Roadside Dedication
    • http://access.mpr.org/features/9805_dedication/
    • Garrison Keillor and audience recite poems
  • Favorite Poem Project
    • http://www.favoritepoem.org/readings/newyork.html
    • Robert Pinskey's project inviting Americans to record their favorite poems.
    • Many poems are available at the site including Mike Wallace reading Browning's "My Last Duchess."
  • EPC Sound Room
    • http://epc.buffalo.edu/sound/
    • Electronic Poetry Center's Sound page Has links to other sites
  • The Cortland Review
    • http://www.cortlandreview.com/
    • An Online Literary Magazine in real audio
  • The New York Times On the Web: Audio Specials
    • http://www.nytimes.com/books/specials/audio.html
    • Readings and interviews with famous authors
  • Wired for Books
    • http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/index.html
    • project of Ohio University's Telecommunications Center
    • Site includes audio files for shortstories, poetry and prose.

Sites Devoted to One Author or Work--Poetry

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