| Electronic Poetry Center Author pages w/ linked articles, poems; emphasis on Modernist, avant-garde, Objectivist, New York, & Language poets. Ubu.com The premier archive visual poetry, sound poetry, concrete poetry, & the avant garde, from Beckett to Cage to Drucker to Torres. PENNsound Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. An extensive sound archive of readings, interviews, poetry radio series, & webcasts. Their manifesto calls for poetry files to be free, downloadable, good quality, and well indexed. Poem Present Video & audio archive of readings & lectures at the University of Chicago, with a preference for innovative work, broadly defined.. Archive of the Now A collection of innovative poetry and text-based work being produced in the UK. Based at the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing, Brunel University, West London. Recordings, sample texts, bios, bibliographies. Academy of American Poets Author pages, articles, links, occasional symposia, news, + everchanging features on poets, poems, & poetic forms. Poetry Society of America Author pages & all that, but also an on-line journal featuring discussions by poets and critics on broad topics (like "poetry & politics" or "what is poetry criticism for?") Modern American Poetry Author pages with critical excerpts,
interview excerpts, readings of individual poems, info on background
& historical context, & links. An auxilliary to The Oxford Anthology of Modern American
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Sally Gaster's African American Phat Library Harlem Renaissance Site, University of Michigan. Poetry Kit A UK poetry site with interviews, articles, poems, & fabulous links for poetry throughout the English-speaking world. Nobel Laureates, Nobel Lectures Bartleby.com Full texts of books that are out of copyright, including Leaves of Grass, Tender Buttons, books by Eliot, Lawrence, Frost, Yeats; complete poems of Burns, Wordsworth, etc.; works on poetics by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Emerson, Whitman; + invaluable anthologies. Also Reference, Fiction, & Non-Fiction. Representative Poetry On-Line On-line version of a teaching anthology published & updated by the University of Toronto since 1914. Several hundred poets whose work is out of copyright + statements on poetics, poems about poetry, etc. Terrific links on the Q&A page. Good glossary of poetic terms. Project Gutenberg Founded my Michael Hart in 1971, Project Gutenberg was the first producer of free electronic books, and now includes over 20,000 free book downloads, with 5 times that number accessible through their affiliate sites. Project Gutenberg books are presented in simple formatting, simple technology, supported by nearly all hardware and software. For most of these books, US copyright has expired. Poetry
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Huge directories of writing programs, poetry journals & presses, contests, grants, residencies, & other resources. Entries on publishers include lists of poets they've published. Journal list is more comprehensive & aesthetically inclusive than most. Literary Magazine Stand: The New Pages Guide to Literary Magazines A generous selection of print journals, from private and university sources. A few unusual ones here, but innovative journals are not represented. Association of Writers & Writing Programs Small Press Distribution Bookfinder.com searches hundreds of databases worldwide, in one step, including large & small dealers. Includes new books from Amazon & B&N, so you can see at a glance if a used book is a good deal. If you check the right box, it will include British sources for new books, as well. Abebooks.com My favorite used book database -- worldwide, efficient, nonprofit. Their want-list allows you to keep a title there indefinitely, instead of automatically deleting once it makes a match. Book Sense Network of independent booksellers: find one near you. |
You are on Susan Tichy's web page George Mason University Main & this page is always under construction, so duck Enlgish Department Preparing for the MFA Reading Exam Guide to MLA Style Writing Exercises The Mag/pie A blog about poetic collaboration & collage DC Poetry Web Page: Local News & Readings GMU Readings Fall for the Book Lannan Readings/Georgetown Lannan Readings/Folger Mason Archival Repository Service Recordings of Fall for the Book & other campus readings Stuff: Field Guide to the Birds of Lorine Niedecker's Collected Works Birding Babylon Mission: Wolf Ian Hamilton Finlay Alec Finlay Traditional Ballads: Scotland, England, America Scottish Poetry The Scottish Poetry Library Book Arts Web: On Line Gallery of Artist's Books Hamish Fulton: Walking Artist Avraham Eilat History in Song Colorado Poets A Humument: The First Edition A Humament Home Page Books Arts Web Artists' Books Online Favorite Typewriters of Famous Writers Wave Books' interactive Erasures page More Stuff: Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers & the Orient Beineke Rare Book & Manuscript Exhibition British Romantic Women Poets, 1789-1932 From the Shields Library, UC Davis: dozens of poets, facsimiles of original publications. Kim Scargborough's Futurism Home Page The Italian Futurist Book An exhibit at Colophon.com, curated by Maurizio Scudiero You can't say you didn't know |
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