LITERARY + QUASI-LITERARY SITES
Bear in mind not all sites are equal. Some look impressive but are filled with bad poetry and use questionable techniques. Don't be taken in by facades ... anyone can hire a webdesigner. These, and everything else on this blog, are presented as a jumping off point only. You'll have to investigate further and make up your own mind.
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About Poetry site - lots of excellent links to poetry sites (American).
- review siteAmerican Life in Poetry put together by Ted Kooser (their poet laureate 2004-2006)
Artists without Frontiers - modelled on the medical version. A human rights site for artists (including writers).
Artdesy.net - An Art Directory
Arts & Letters Daily - general literary and comment site
ArtsRush - Literary and arts site
Arts in Shoalhaven news site - news of the arts in the Shoalhaven
Australia Council - premier Australian funding body (and their journal OzArts)
Australian Literature resources up-to-date list of poets
AustLit - a resource for Australian Literature. Unless your organisation subscribes, you'll have to pay to get into some of it, but there are some free bits which are worth investigating too.
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Bad Press - not what you think.
Bob's Byway Glossary of Poetic Terms
CDE
Children's Book Council useful site with helpful links among other helpful information for writer's for children, a peak body
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Fiera Lingue - interesting Italian site (which also has English)
Friendly St Poets - site of one of the longest running readings in the country (Adelaide).
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The Ghazal Page - a page devoted poems in the form of the ghazal.
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IJK
Internet Poetry Archive - great resources on some of the 'great names' of contemporary poetry
Poetry International Web - 160: Texting and Poetry
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The Literature Page- a place to read classic books, plays, stories, poems, essays, and speeches
Literary Kicks 'where literature lives online' - since 1994.
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McSweeney's - The famous site (prose fiction).
Modern American Poetry - This link is a sampler of Hass's Poet's Choice. Well worth a visit.
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The Page - very good poetry page - includes news from all over
Poetry Bay - online poetry magazine out of the Bay area (US)
Poetry Daily - interesting. Picks up poems from newly published books and journals.
The Poetry Kit Based in the UK but all sorts of useful things here
The Poetry Library - UK
poneme - poetry discussion list
The Prairie Home Companion of Garrison Keilor fame. If you don't know his work the subtitle of the site - "Consider the em-dash." might give you an idea.
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Recommended Poets from Dee Rimbaud's site.
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Silva Rhetoricae The forest of Rhetoric - a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric
SoundEye - interesting stuff on a collaborative project
Synaptic Graffiti - for link to multimedia poetry
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Thunderburst has a useful link to the AA Independent Press Guide (UK based) which is a free online writers resource, listing over 2000 magazines and publishers and 700 internet magazines. Dee Rimbaud's site.
Thylazine Foundation site - arts, ethics, literature
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UbuWeb - excellent literary site.
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Web del Sol - great site. From here you can get just about everywhere.
Wengu - Chinese Classic poetry site
Writersworld - online interviews with Canadian authors