Favorite Links
Printed lit journals here
Online small magazines here

AHA!Poetry.com "the glove on the hand of AHA!Books." Publishers of Lynx magazine, they also offer varied poetic info & opportunities, with emphasis on Japanese forms.

Amniotic Meander Gorgeous visual and hypertext presentation by poet & editor Jennifer Ley.

The Apostrophe Protection Society An organization whose laudable goals and notable achievements (including the IgNobel Prize for Literature!) should be supported by grammar-lovers & pedants everywhere.

Bad Poetry Seamus Cooney's Bad Poetry reference site.

Bartleby.com As they say themselves, the preeminent internet publisher of literature, reference and verse, providing students and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and info free of charge. One of the largest free collections of verse on the web!

Charles Bernstein's Poetry Experiments The all-time, be-all, end-all cure for writer's block.

BookThatPoet.com A Good Idea originating in Madison. Shoshauna Shy's brainchild is a convenient reference for organizations or venues looking for poets to read, perform, or do workshops. Poets pay a yearly fee and can be contacted directly from the site.

Brunching Shuttlecocks Dispirited? At a loss for inspiration? These guys'll fix ya, them & their fun toys! Phrase and lyric generators, spelling assistance, and more.

Carolina Navy This is poetic in nature, but quite peculiar. Avast, y'all.

Conclave Obscurum Neatly surmounting the international linguistic barrier by labelling its buttons in Latin. Incredible multi-media, multi-language works, Gigeresque art.

Contemporary American Poetry Archive An archive of out-of -print poetry books.

Eunoia by Christian Bök Brought to you by the letter e, in Flash.

GumballPoetry.com A Very Nice Idea: poems and message-in-a-bottles, in gumball machines. And don't miss the Psychic Book Project, for your moments of leisure.

*Holy Tango of Literature Fall-off-your-futon anagrammatical parodies of Famous Poets—just keep scrolling down.

Internalational Dictionary of Neologisms Newly-coined words, contributed by their authors. Feel free.

iterature.com Über-cybertext. The seed of sorgoine is secretly being sown.

Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet Download a free poetry-writing screensaver, a Poet's Assistant to help you write, and 50 professionally-designed "poet personalities"!!??!! Amazing, but not for Macintosh (sob!)

Literary Kicks Interesting discussions on important modern poetic movements.

Litline.org For the Independent Literary Community.

Learn English—Poems The British Council, trying to be helpful.

Luciferous Logolepsy English words that may stretch any basic definitions. Oh yeah.

Mainstream Poetry Avaunt, garde! With an emphasis on amateur gynecology, at least the last time we saw it.

Rod McKuen is still around. Really; don't laugh.

Mullet Haiku For me? You're too kind…

*New Pages: Lit Mags succinct info abnout what's new out there in the literary world.

Octothorp Press Not just one of my favorite words; a few interesting projects as well. I recommend the Boilerplate Series.

Origami Boulder Poet, artist AND entrepreneur. Need we say more?

Pathetic.org Quite a decent online poetry forum with elaborate services and useful tools. I am advised that "they don't make it easy to get in; you have to submit an application, a poetry sample, and use a non-free email address (no Yahoo or Hotmail). They prefer a calm, respectful community there so they'd rather keep it small."

PoemFactotum will submit your precious poems to lit journals for a modest fee. Offers custom chapbook design and printing. Also, a few good rants. Highly recommended!

PoetsWithoutBorders.org International Good Works and sponsor of the local CheapAtAnyPrice open mikes.

Poetry.com The spawn of the infamous International Library of Poetry—you have been warned! Ostensible cash prizes; they will print anything you send in. Really; try it! Mine's here—or look on their site under F.J. Bergmann. Read Dave Barry's hilarious take on their scam in Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus. Relevant sites may be found at www.toad.net/~andrews/scam.html or www.sfwa.org/beware/ or windpub.com/literary.scams/endall.htm describing this outfit and other nefarious web denizens of their ilk. Other names they have used are: "National Library of Poetry," "International Library of Poetry," "Pegasus Press," " Poetry Guild," "Watermark Press," "Birthwrites," "International Poetry Hall of Fame."

Poetry 180 Billy Collin's great site for high school students, and everyone else. Poem a day!

Poetry Daily More good poem-a-day stuff.

Poetry Express Tons of good stuff. And it will (practically) write your poems for you!

Poetry Magic A remarkably nice resource center and complete guide for the writing of poetry; an extremely useful and worthwhile site!

The Poetry Market Free e-newsletter, instructive articles, markets, and other useful info.

PoetryPoetry.com, a web site dedicated to audio poetry. The poems on PoetryPoetry are pre-recorded readings by the original artists.

poetryproject.com We especially like David Cameron. We especially like the idea of false translations.

Poetry Renewal More forms than you can shake a stick at.

Poets & Writers The lit trade magazine: great articles & interviews, and a comprehensive list of contests & awards.

Poets.org The Academy of American Poets.

Representative Poetry On-Line A glossary with other useful indices, thoughtfully provided by the English Dept. of the U. of Toronto. Watch out for those Anglicisms!

Selby’s List List of Experimental Poetry Magazines, based solely on the research and judgments of the rightfully emeinent Spencer Selby.

Semaj Publications of Denver Poetry.com for black folks. All the same scam warnings apply (see poetry.com listing above), plus the ones about vanity presses.

Silliman's Blog A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics.

Synesthesia Flash poetry from Felix Jung. Wonderful stuff.

Spondee Milwaukee-produced poets and poetry site; features Wisconsin poets.

Vispo.com Yes! Major weirdness, with the single most beautiful object on the internet: The Word Egg of Ur Exercising.

WhatIHaveRead.net Inspiration for all. The most important source for writing poetry is reading it, and if Eric can read this many books and be an astrophysicist too, you should be able to get through a few yourself from time to time.

WinningWriters.com Up-to-date listings of poetry and writng contests.

WisconsinPoet.com Local poets! Sell your books! And buy books by Wisconsonians.

Writer's Digest Great articles & info for poets and other writers.

Word Chowder Light Verse, quite clever and quite, quite funny.

The Word Detective Ongoing etymology, and origins of terms and phrases as well. Oh, and don't forget the cute kittens.