Beyond The Orality/Literacy Dichotomy:
An essay about James Joyce and the pre-history of cyberspace by Donald F. Theall.

Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry
This is a Grand Central Station of World Poetry. Click onto this site and hitch a ride to some of the most innovative and remarkable poetry sites on the www. Access poets like jas h. duke, Rochelle Ratner, Marilyn Rosenberg and Carl Rakosi. Also the Collective Effort of Australian Visual Poets with some great concrete poems by Peter Murphy, Alex Selenitsch, thalia, and others. There is also an excellent collection of Hungarian visual poetry. Highly recommended!

Thylazine

A thylazine is a supposedly extinct Tasmanian wolf, but there is nothing extinct about the writing you will find in this new on-line mag. Editor, Coral Hull says: "Thylazine will focus on Australian artists and writers, where and how they work and what they are working on at present. I am committed to promoting those Australians who still struggle to maintain their creative art, in these challanging times of little funding and few galleries and publishers. The e-zine will also be a forum for the heroes of environmental and animal rights movement who work so hard for others, and for so long. I hope that Thylazine will offer at least some cyber-support and a unique voice for the little-known workers of this country."

100 Mississippi Delta Blues Haiku
Geoffrey Wilson's collection of haiku explores the similarity of life in the Mississippi Delta, even the Blues, and everything Southern, to the agrarian life which spawned Japanese haiku. They are similar not only in their depiction of a way of life, and their sad nostalgia for a simpler, more rural lifestyle, but in surprisingly many of the motifs, backgrounds, images, and specific wildlife. Interesting site.

A Miscellany of Jazz Poems
A miscellany of jazz poems can be found here, by such notables as Ted Joans, Bill Zavatsky, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Great for reading aloud.

a wind of such violence - poems by Sylvia Plath
A huge collection of poems by Sylvia Plath - 230+ and growing - constucted by one of her most ardent fans.

Anthology
Hosted by Bob Nelson, the site features performance poetry, storytelling and news from the literary world.

Apples and Snakes
England's leading organisers of performance poetry. Apples & Snakes was established in 1982 as a platform for poetry which would be popular, relevant, cross-cultural and accessible to the widest possible range of people.

BBC's Poetry Outloud
Hear ReaTime recordings of some of the best modern British poets reading their work. Poets include W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Stevie Smith.

bell tongue - poems by Paola Bilbrough
Moving through Mexico, Ireland and Asia, each poem in bell tongue is a condensed fiction, containing tautly drawn scenes between glimpsed characters. Powerful poems for reading aloud.

Blue Moon Review
The Blue Moon Review (founded as The Blue Penny Quarterly) has been published continuously since early 1994, making it one of the oldest living literary magazines online, and one of the few with an ongoing international following. BMR is published from a passive solar house out in the woods south of Richmond, Virginia and the James River.

Blue Neon Alley
Great poetry resource with an emphasis on beat poetry and jazz. Features Lew Welch, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker and Anne Waldman among many others. Recommended!

Bob Osborn's Futurism and the Futurists
The biggest and best Futurist site on the WWW.

Can Poetry Matter?
Dana Gioia's seminal article on the irrelevancy of American poetry, and how poets might make it relevant again. Essential reading for all poets testing the boundaries of the written form.

Canadian Poetry
An excellent, exhaustive site providing the web's best introduction to contemporary Canadian poetry, including a survey of poems, literary magazines and other Canadian poetry sites.

Carl Rakosi in conversation
Carl Rakosi, together with Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff, form the core of that group which has come to be known as the "Objectivist" poets. Mr Rakosi dropped out of poetry publishing between 1941 and the mid-sixties, devoting himself to social work. Steve Dickson met him on 21 September 1999, a week and a half after Mr Rakosi's reading to a capacity audience at the Unitarian Center on Franklin Street in San Francisco. The interview was taped, then transcribed that evening and over the following days, with minor edits.

Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché has long been one of my favorite poets. I have read her poems aloud to audiences for many years. Explore her poems and ideas for yourself at her homepage.

Chan Poetry
Chan Buddhism is the precursor of Zen, and this page features some of the best examples of this form of poetry, including Hsu Yun's Ox-Herding poems.

Charles Reznikoff
Speaking of Charles Reznikoff's poetry, poet George Oppen once remarked: "I don't know of any poems more pure, or more purely spoken, or more revelatory." For those not already familiar with the work of Reznikoff, or for those who feel like a return visit, this is the site.

Chez Antonin Artaud
Poet, essayist, playwright, actor & director: Artaud died more than half a century ago. This site is as good an introduction to the man and his work as one can find on the net. A great resource for those studying or simply admiring the complexity of Artaud's work and life.

Chinese Avant Garde Poetry

Chiyo-ni - Art & Poetry
This page presents calligraphy, art, and haiku poetry by the Pure Land Buddhist nun, Chiyo-ni (Kaga no Chiyo) (1703-1775), with excerpts from Women in Praise of the Sacred (HarperPerennial, 1994) -- introduction by Jane Hirshfield and a meditation by D.T. Suzuki.

Chris Mansell
Major literary site of Australian poet and performer, Chris Mansell.

Christina Conrad - Art and Poetry
Exceptional poet, artist and playwright. Check out her poems which can be accessed through this "portal" site. Highly recommended!

Concrete Poetry : Links, Notes, References, Guides
Superb online directory compiled by Michael P. Garofalo featuring all the best concrete poetry sites on the WWW.

Concrete Poetry in the works of Ian Hamilton Finlay
A poetry which literally "paints" with words... Ian Hamilton Finlay's "concretes" underscore the form's preoccupation with the relationship between literary content and visual form. A thought-provoking and highly informative site.

Contemporary Poetry Review
The Contemporary Poetry Review is one of the web's better critical ezines, featuring reviews of poetry books and literary criticism related to the art of poetry.

Dadaism by Tristan Tzara
Excerpts from From "Dada Manifesto" [1918] and "Lecture on Dada" [1922], translated from the French by Robert Motherwell, *Dada Painters and Poets*, by Robert Motherwell, New York, pp. 78- 9, 81, 246-51; reprinted by permission of George Wittenborn, Inc., Publishers, 10l8 Madison Avenue, New York 21, N.Y. For those who have not yet met Tzara...

David Ennion - Performance Poet
The introduction to the site informs us: "Whether by accident or design, you have arrived at the website of performance poet David Ennion..." View his latest collection of poems and lyrics 'Alternative Tragedian' in its entirety, and explore some past and present preoccupations through an array of personally selected links.

dEbRiS
Steve Duffy - of Debris writes: "i was a performance poet of sorts at one time. i don't get out much now." He describes his site as "scattered fragments, loose materials... dEbRiS presents poetry in a variety of ways, some of which require a javascript enabled browser. the site is fairly minimal [it fits on a floppy] and lo-tech, using html, image [sparingly], a little javascript,monkeys with typewriters, invisible hands, ciphers, signs & sigils, gum mastic, wispy entities, ultraviolet glow, transparent strategies, the dust & dinge of the cluttered house, grand illusion, burnt knotted shoelace, and so on."

Deep South

Denise Duhamel: The Woman With Two Vaginas
Winner of the 1994 Salmon Run Poetry Prize and nominated for the 1995 American Library Association Award, these remarkable poems are based on Inuit mythology. Recommended.

Digital Poets Society
This site features a wide range of poetry from the likes of Goethe, Blake, Byron, T.S. Eliot and Chinese poets, among others. Not to be missed.

Dorothy Hewett
I first met and heard Dorothy Hewett at the Morpeth Poetry Festival in Australia in 1976. My affection for her and my love of her poems has endured over the years. This site introduces her work to those of you who have not yet made the acquaintance. If you like what you read here, please seek out her books and other writings. They are well worth it.

Duende : Theory and Divertissement
Lorca's classic statement about integrity and artistic expression.

e-poets
e-poets - formerly The Book of Voices - seems a rather unassuming little site... but wait... have a look and listen round... beyond the entranceway lies a living salon of literature in text, spoken word, and multimedia; a literary collection lending context, a sense of place, and identity to literary art from Chicago and elsewhere. Highly recommended!!

Early Japanese Women Poets
An excellent compendium of representative verse from the 2nd century to the late 20th century. Hours of fruitful exloration to be found here.

Eisenstein in Mexico
Dramatic investigation of the greatest "art tragedy" of the twentieth century... the abortion of Sergei Eisenstein's film classic, QUE VIVA MEXICO.

Electronic Book Review
Line by line, bit by bit, the remarkable new code of the electronic book review interface is sharpening its teeth... Now, for example, you can see reader/writers BITE BACK at other essays in the riPOSTes... There are NEW REVIEWS for you to chew... Floods in the East Fires in the West . . . but the IDEAS are 7 feet tall and GROWING Find out what it's all about...

Elizabeth Bishop - The Eye of the Outsider
Adrienne Rich's insightful article from the Boston Reviewabout the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop provides an excellent introduction to the work of this frequently overlooked 20th century American poet.

Emily Dickenson's Mystic Poetry
Despite relentless pressure from her family and fellow townspeople, Emily Dickenson stubbornly resisted organised Christianity while having a continuous mystical communion with what she liked to call ‘Eternity’. Read more about this remarkable poet, and experience her poems first-hand at this excellent introductory site.

Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines by Spencer Selby

A directory to some of the world's biggest, smallest, best and worst experimental poetry and art magazines with on-line links.

EzraPound
One of the web's best resources for texts of Pound's early poetry. For those unfamiliar with Ezra Pound's work, this site contains some excellent and very accessible poems, including Historion, The Return and In a Station at the Metro.

Fernando Pessoa - Selected Poems
Excellent introduction to the poetry of this unusual Portuguese poet.

Found Poems
Amazing where "poems" turn up - look around you; they are everywhere. This site proves it - Found & Insane Poems, check them out on the menu entitled "Assorted".

French surrealist poetry
Poems by Andre Breton, Hans Arp, Pierre Unik and others, translated by David Gascoyne. Some great performance "pieces".

From Translation to Imitation
Richard Jackson's thought-provoking article on the art of literary translation has relevance for all poets, including those who make translations from the written to the oral.

Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl was born in Salzburg on 3rd February 1887. Trakl started writing articles for a local newspaper, two one-act plays and numerous poems, however he found little success until he met Ludwig von Ficker, editor of Der Brenner journal. Ficker encouraged Trakl and regularly published his poems. A collection in Trakl's poetry was published in 1913. Read twenty of his best poems (translated by Robert Bly and James Wright) here.

George Quasha
George Quasha's influence extends back to his wonderful anthology, America - A Propecy. It introduced me to a whole heap of ideas - tribal and modern - which to a naive, middle-class Air Force brat proved revolutionary. Years later, we did a poetry reading together in Kingston (N.Y.), and I was pleased to discover that the poet was just as extraordinary as the editor. For those not familiar with Quasha's writing, this site offers an excellent introduction in the form of The Preverbs of Tell.

GET UNDERGROUND
Get Underground, in partnership with United Poets Coalition, bring you Poetry HotSpots - a continuously updated directory of poetry and spoken word spots nationwide (USA) for both poets and the poetically interested.