Literary Links

Categories on this page: Poetry Buying, Looking Up Poems, Practicing, Poetry Events, Magazines and Subscritions, E-Zines, Personal Sites, Organizations and Poet Biographies

Advisory: This page hasn't been updated in internet ages. A number of links are likely down or moved. Your best bet would be to check out Bywords

Buying, Looking Up or Practicing Poetry Sites

Poem Finder It's driving me crazy. What's the rest of that poem? Check this litfinder -- 100,000 full-text poems, 800,000 poem citations with Subject Navigator, Explanations, Biographies.

places for writers - a portal of frequently updated links

RhymeZone for help with your sonnets

Taverners' Koans of essays, writing exerises and glossary to brush your enjambment up to your assonance

Poetry Spoken Here: Canada's Poetry Webstore

Genuine Canadian: A one stop source for Canadian literary magazine subscriptions

PoetrySuperhighway Bookstore where you can find reams of small and bigger press things

Just Cool

Darwinian Poetry Project: Through votes on the random grouping of words, David Rea hopes that a maximally successful poem will evolve in the biological sense.

Poetry Events and Groups

Literary Ottawa lists Ottawa's literary events, Sasquach readings,etc.

TREE Reading Series has bimonthly readings

The Hungry Poet is the site of a lady who was featured on CBC radio. She begs for not coins but words and makes poetry from the verbal offerings she gets as she sits on the sidewalk in Ottawa.

whirred: poetry for your ears

Bywords does events and has a calendar of local events as well as a poetry journal online

Sasquatch where someone is as likely to read a poem as sing has a direct page to its schedule of monthly readings, performances.

OmniGothic NeoFuturists writer's workshop group

Suki Lee has always got a reading or event coming soon

Valley Writer's Guild has monthly meetings with guest speakers on the craft of writing, an annual contest and journal.

Geraldine R Dodge Poetry Festival: massive biannual, (2000, 2002, 2004 etc.,) multi-day poetry festival in NJ, New England USA including the special guest reader of Stanley Kunitz. Tickets should be available online before long. The site has moved to about an hour and a half out of NY city for September 30 to October 3. Who's there? Probably some of the names here:

Magazines and Subscriptions

The Green Tricycle allows some delight back into poetry

Forget Magazine positively fantastic

The Modern Haiku has some freely accessible haibun, haiku and senryu

Haijinx of lighthearted haiku is now going down due to Marl's other commitments.

Other Haiku can be found at haikai.info

You can get a haiku a day in your mailbox from http://tinywords.com

The Modern Humorist does take offs of Dickinson, Angelou, Basho and more

Canadian Writer's Journal is an on-paper publication with a strength in writing about writing. Too expensive for me to subscribe to tho.

Instead of citing other literary magazines, go to Genuine Canadian Magazines

Alien Flower

Other Sites of Interest to a Writer:

Griffin Poetry Prize has interesting links

Canada's Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Types of Poetry by Shadow Poetry gives a description and an example or two of each of dozens of forms.

Poetry Hut Blog has links to lively poetry-related news.

Publishers' Weekly the international news source of book publishing and book selling

Lyrical Library of CBC with classic poems by poets such as by Dickinson, Dorothy Livesay, Archibald Lampman and Cristini Rossetti.

Writing Lists where you can practice in an asynchronous workshop environment

Index of Writing Assignments for Practice as an archive of a Practice-W listserv.

How to Crit a Poem

HyperPoem of Auden's In Memory of WB Yeats

Personal Site and E-zines Sites

Footsteps of an Elephant: Poems by Judy Goodwin

Vivid: Erin Noteboom's Writer's Notebook Online: Her writer's blog of thoughts and poems in process. It always has new poems, new insights and interesting links.

PoetrySuperHighway is one very sticky site and has two new poet excerpts each week

Scott Higgerman's site has some fantastic poems

Stuart Ross's site

Drive Through Poetry Sheryl's site has a wonderful consistantly intergrated theme and playful interface.

Tirra Lirra is an unchanging personal poetry site that I like from Australia but it is rarely updated.

Stirring: A Literary Collection is an online literary collection worth browsing and chatting at, esp. if you're into chats.

Zero Card a personal site of "scribblings" and poetry of Chris Blakeley.

Scottspeck.com is a personal site with art and poetry.

Words of a Women Net Society is a mediated entry point to women's personal poetry pages "out there".

"Did I miss anything?" Tom Wayman's Poetic answer to absent students who ask. Adore that poem!

Poet Organizations and Who's Who

The Writer's Union of Canada has information on online and print resources to help writers, published members of the union such as Roo Borson and Kate Braid, as well as contests.

100 Canadian Poets with brief bios and credits has ben organized by the University of Calgary

Academy of American Poets is a well designed comprehensive site where you can search for exhibits on particular poets such as Past-Poet Laureate of the U.S., Robert Pinsky.

League of Canadian Poets with national level resources and an extensive list of poetry sources online, audio and text.

Canadian Contemporary Poets by the University of Toronto has poet biographies and poetry samples of people such as Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and Lorna Crozier.

[Newest Poems ] | [Watermark Me Free] | [Haiku] | [Life Eaten with a Spoon]  
| [Statistics] | [A Closer Look] | [Humanyms] | [Links] | [Page Half-Full] | [Home]

©2001-2004 Pearl Pirie