* Free Web Sites — Writer Network is offering free web sites to writers (and other creative people). These are full-featured, 20 MB sites that come with free hosting and email@yoursite.com. Sites can be used to post portfolios, resumés, announcements, whatever. There is absolutely no obligation involved with these free sites, though it is financed by an ad at the top of the individual’s web page, similar to other free web sites. If, by choice, a person doesn’t want the ad at the top or if he/she wants a site larger than 20 MB, then there is a payment. Otherwise, most people simply ignore the top ad and set up the web site for free. Free email comes with it too: <email@yourname.com>
Jacket magazine has not investigated and does not endose this service: try at your own risk.

All Info-About Poetry — an online community for poets, poetry lovers & students to learn, share their lives and discover works in a wide variety of styles. List of resources, magazines, small presses, and a discussion forum. At http://poetry.allinfo-about.com/

The Barcelona Review... short stories, interviews, et cetera, stylishly edited by Jill Adams. Check it out at http://www.barcelonareview.com/

Beats — The Beat Page is a personal project of Ken Rumsey (“with a little help from my friends”) and is intended to provide internet users with access to “all things Beat” on the web.The site is elegantly designed and full of useful links to background material, including a site that markets the marvelous photos of Fred McDarrah, the great photo-journalist of the movement, who snapped just about every poetry reading, jazz improvisation and serious inhalation of the era. Photo (below right): Ken Rumsey.
At: http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/index.html

BeeHive... A special issue of BeeHive, the Hypertext Hypermedia Literary Journal, at http://www.temporalimage.com/beehive/, devotes the bulk of its space to a selection of poets from New York and San Francisco. The section includes an introduction by guest editor Alan Kaufman, photographic portraits of New York and San Francisco poets by Ralph Ackerman, plus a wide selection of poetry from both coasts. Among the poets included are David Meltzer, Eileen Myles, David Trinidad, Harold Norse, plus a sampling from New York’s Unbearables, poems from the San Francisco group 9x9 and many others. BeeHive is produced and published by PERCEPTICON and is under the creative direction of Talan Memmott.

Blithe House Quarterly at http://www.blithe.com/: a site for gay short fiction Description: BHQ features a diversity of new short stories by emerging and established gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered authors.
“The central publishing arm of new queer fiction” — OUT Magazine.

C A N A D A

The Capilano Review — http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/thecapilanoreview was founded in Canada in 1972, and has published some of the finest fiction, poetry, drama and visual art in Canada and throughout the world The magazine has won five National Magazine Awards, two Western Magazine Awards and a citation from the Canadian Studies Association. They have published Phyllis Webb, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, Evelyn Lau, Susan Crean, Roy Kiyooka, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Robin Blaser, Brian Fawcett, John Newlove, Duncan McNaughton, bill bissett, Audrey Thomas and numerous other internationally acclaimed writers and artists.

The Danforth Review at http://www.danforthreview.com/ offers fiction, poetry, reviews and features, and links to thirty or so other Canadian magazines and to other magazines from around the world.

Vallum, on the Internet at http://www.vallummag.com/ is a bi-annual, print magazine of new poetry, interviews, reviews, visual art and feature articles.
Here’s what the editors say:
      Vallum (no, it’s not a drug) is published twice a year out of Montreal. It was founded in 2000 by Joshua Auerbach and Eleni Zisimatos Auerbach and the first issue was launched at Casa del Popolo in the spring of 2001. Subsequent issues have been praised for their eclectic, original poetry, art, challenging essays, interviews and reviews.
    Edgy and sharp, Vallum promotes the best poetry and writing today, with a broad focus on work that pushes limits and is the best in its field. Vallum has published work by notable Canadian and international poets, writers, critics and artists, including Erín Moure (Governor General’s Award winner), Nicole Brossard (GG Winner), Stephanie Bolster (GG Winner), D.G. Jones (GG Winner), and internationally Medbh McGuckian, Rhoda Janzen and John Kinsella, to name a few. Vallum features writers from Canada as well as the US, Australia, New Zealand, England or Ireland in each issue. This gives Vallum a poly-vocal flavour, engaging in the art and views of international figures.
      Vallum is produced as a kind of “art object,” perfect-bound, heavy stock paper, an interweaving of texts and visual art, an innovative, sleek design. Its appeal is constantly being refined and its content challenged to contain the best work possible.

CipherJournal at www.CipherJournal.com ... the online literary magazine of creative translation, aims to highlight the place of translation in creative literature. Poetry, fiction, essays, in translation or in communication with translation, by Clayton Eshleman, Burton Raffel, Kent Johnson, Pierre Joris, Jerome Rothenberg, the Barnstones, Andrew Schelling, David Young, and new writers as well. Reviews of books in translation old and new. Open to submissions. Editor: Lucas Klein.

The Cortland Review at http://www.cortlandreview.com is an American-based online journal that is a bonanza of poetry for readers of all flavors. Editor, J.M. Spalding. All work that appears in TCR is in text and REAL AUDIO.

On the Cross-Cultural Poetics radio program, poet Leonard Schwartz interviews poets and writers from all over the world on their art and their language. These conversations also include readings from the poets’ work, in both the original and translation. In addition to American poets from all over the country, many of whom are involved with the literature of other countries as well, guests have included poets from Egypt, Israel, China, Singapore, The Philippines, Malaysia, India, Romania, Russia, Belgium, Argentina, Chile, Barbados, and Canada. The program seeks to make connections between a number of international discourses and the US Pacific Northwest region.

Cross-Cultural Poetics can be heard every Wednesday at 2pm on KAOS 89.3FM Olympia Community Radio. For more information, please contact Donna DiBianco at [USA] (360) 867-6897.

Cross-Cultural Poetics, at http://kaos.evergreen.edu/programs/cc_poetics.html;
on air at KAOS, Community Radio 89.3 FM, Olympia, Washington state, USA,
and anywhere in the world on the KAOS audio stream.

Wait! There’s more! All of Leonard Schwartz’s radio programs are now archived at the U of Pennsylvania,Pennsound, where anyone can listen in:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/linking-page/XCP.html

Leonard Schwartz is a Professor of Literary Arts at The Evergreen State College. He was born in 1963 in New York City and is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Tower of Diverse Shores (Talisman House, 2003), and Words Before The Articulate: New and Selected Poems, (Talisman House). He is also the author of a collection of essays A Flicker At The Edge Of Things: Essays on Poetics 1987–1997 (Spuyten Duyvil). In 1997 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. He has taught at Bard College and Brown University and now lives in Olympia, WA with his wife, the Chinese poet Zhang Er, and their daughter, Cleo.

The East Village highlights art and poetry from China, Japan, etc. and North America, as well as Australia and Europe. Video, audio, webart and poetics appear regularly. Special editions, accessible onsite, are Video Tokyo, Boston 1999, Poetries of Canada and the new LA | NY, with work from over 60 contributors. Editor, Jack Kimball. The URL Internet address:
http://www.theeastvillage.com

The Electronic Poetry Center... http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ Based at the State University of New York at Buffalo, this is a large site devoted to formally innovative contemporary American and other poetry, with an emphasis on so-called “Language poetry”.
The Center provides access to electronic resources in the new poetries including RIF/T and other electronic poetry journals, the Poetics List archives, an author library of electronic poetic texts, and direct links to numerous related electronic resources. It also offers information about contemporary print little magazines and small presses engaged in poetry and poetics, and an extensive collection of soundfiles of poets reading their work, as well as the archive of LINEbreak, the radio interview series. The EPC is directed by Loss Pequeño Glazier. The initial homepage graphic is slow-loading... but aren’t they all? [ They must have good taste, too — Jacket was their “featured site” for November 1997.]

failbetter.com from Brooklyn, New York, is a quarterly e-zine in the spirit of a traditional literary journal — dedicated to publishing quality fiction, poetry and artwork. The editors, Thom Didato and David McLendon, say “While the web plays host to hundreds, if not thousands, of genre-related literary sites (i.e. sci fi and horror — many of which have merit) failbetter.com is not one of them. We place a high degree of importance on originality — believing that even — in this age of trends — it is still possible. failbetter.com is not looking for what is current or momentary.” At http://www.failbetter.com/

Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
at http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/ Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics is a bi-annual electronic journal that focuses on publishing the finest free verse being written today. While the journal aims to provide a forum for the wide variety of poetic practices in the United States at present, Free Verse has a strong interest in work originating outside the US, and is particularly interested in publishing translations. Issues feature an eclectic selection of poems, extended interviews of important poets, and reviews of contemporary books.

Free Verse Editions represents a joint venture between Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and Parlor Press (www.parlorpress.com). The series will publish three to five books of poetry per year. We are especially interested in collections with dramatic language, a singular vision of experience, a deep knowledge of poetic tradition, and a willingness to takes risks. Original translations are also welcomed. The series editor is Jon Thompson. For more, go to http://www.parlorpress.com/freeverse/index.html

Gangway . . . is a magazine for contemporary literature from Australia & Austria: Short stories, poetry, essays & experimental prose, at http://www.gangway.net/

heretic house publishing at http://www.amestoy.com Poet C.E. Amestoy has built a high-tech, interactive art site, featuring stylish photography and lines of thought-provoking poetry that fade in and out, reflecting on the making of the millennium and indulgence in high-tech heresy. Within these walls multimedia art collides with a creative revolution of bon vivant propaganda and metaphysical delight. Amestoy appears to have invitied over Lao Tze, Doctor Seuss and Carl Jung for a night of gin and cards and trouble in all hemispheres. It’s the good life.

The Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is making available live Web casts of their Readings and Conversations Series at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. All future programs in the Readings and Conversations series will be Web cast at 7:00 p.m. MST (US Mountain Standard Time; this is 2 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time the following day). To listen in, just go to the Lannan Web site: http://www.lannan.org/ and click on the live Web cast icon; it will be a picture of the reader for that evening.

The Readings and Conversations calendar is on the Web site at: http://www.lannan.org/literary/readings.htm For those who can’t listen in in real time, the audio recording of the reading will be available on the Web site within 48 hours. In addition, there is an extensive audio archive on the site, at:
http://www.lannan.org/literary/audio.htm

The Literary Review is mainly a print journal, but they have links with the Web Del Sol Internet site and publish a number of small electronic chapbooks. Mailing address:
285 Madison Avenue,
Madison, NJ 07940
Phone 201-443-8564

Email tlr@fdu.edu

Check out the Web site at http://webdelsol.com/tlr/

The Loft Literary Center at http://www.loft.org/ in Minnesota. The mission of the Loft is to foster a writing community, the artistic development of individual writers, and an audience for literature. Founded in 1974 in a loft above a Minneapolis bookstore, the Loft is now the nation’s largest and most comprehensive literary center, offering programs and services for readers and writers. Whatever forms of reading and writing you are drawn to, there’s something for you at the Loft. Take a creative writing class. Attend a special presentation by a favorite Minnesota writer. Enter a writing competition or attend a reading. You are invited to become involved in the Loft’s unique community and to join others who engage in a reading and writing life.

The editors of Loop (Twisted Tongue) in Berkeley represent a diverse group of young poets motivated to write with voices conscious in the expressive capacity of language... dedicated to the idea that poetry continues to have significance in contemporary experience... they write from diverse perspectives, and welcome new voices to expand their own appreciation of poetry.
     “The editing staff,” they say, “has chosen William Carlos Williams as a canonical representative to our style but do not let this limit your image of Twisted Tongue. Imagine WCW at the center of a spinning turntable that has haphazardly dispersed the poetic voice of this great Modernist through the linguistics gravitated in a centrifugal exploration; that image represents the voice of Twisted Tongue.”
Loop, c/o Press 62 Publications, 2224 Dwight Way Apt. A, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
email: mailto:loop@press62.org

Natural Bridge at http://www.umsl.edu/~natural/
is a bi-annual publication from the University of Missouri, Saint Louis that features fiction, poetry, personal essays, and work in translation from authors world-wide. Work is accepted during two annual submission periods, July 1 August 31 and November 1 to December 31. Electronic submissions are not accepted, simultaneous submissions are acceptable if authors notify Natural Bridge immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Notable work is nominated for appearance in Best American Short Stories and for the Pushcart Prize. Payment is two contributor copies and a year subscription.

Paperplates in Toronto at http://www.paperplates.org/

Available for downloading directly from www.paperplates.org, paperplates is a literary quarterly published (in Adobe PDF format only) in Toronto ‘for 50 readers’.
      The editors say: We make no distinction between veterans and beginners. Some of our contributors have published several books; some have never before published a single line. What will paperplates publish? Like most magazines, paperplates has a front, a middle, and a back section. In the front section ("homeplate") we put short personal essays, memoirs, and travel accounts. The tone expected is that of an informal letter, although the subject itself need not be light. The average length is 2,500 words. In the middle section we put short stories, one-act plays, musical scores, poems short and long, extended travel pieces, formal essays, interviews, and reminiscences. (These categories are not exclusive.) The maximum length for the prose works is 7,500 words, for the poems 1,500 words (give or take a few couplets). We prefer not to serialize, particularly when the subsequent parts have yet to be written. In the back section we put reviews of theatre, films, and books. The average length is 2,500 words. We have some fine regular reviewers, but no one holds tenure here. We welcome opinionated writing. We also welcome photos and drawings for display throughout the magazine. We publish one or two cartoons in each issue.
      Inquiries to magazine@paperplates.org
      paperplates, 19 Kenwood Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6C 2R8, Canada

PennSound

PennSound has a new look and many new poetry MP3s, both historical and contemporary, including Bernadette Mayer, H.D., Lydia Davis, Jennifer Moxley, Gil Ott, Vachel Lindsay, Paul Auster, Kit Robinson, Rodrigo Toscano, Ann Waldman & many others. We also have the first two segments of Robert Ashley's video opera series, Music with Roots in the Aether, featuring Phil Glass and David Behrman. On the new home page, we feature a selection of recommended files. The selection will be updated every few months.
Directors: Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

Ploughshares is a literary print journal, publishing poetry and fiction and occasionally personal essays/ memoirs. Internet contact address: http://www.pshares.org/
Each issue is guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. We are considered one of the top literary journals in the United States. Although we are affiliated with Emerson College in Boston, Mass., we are not a student publication. We receive a thousand submissions each month from all over the country and the world, and the authors we publish range from best-selling household names to fresh new discoveries.

Thirty-Two Years of Award Winners: Stories, poems, and essays from Ploughshares have appeared at least 129 times in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.

Ploughshares, Emerson College, 120 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116, USA

Poetry International, Rotterdam
at http://www.poetry.nl is a government-sponsored foundation working to promote interest in and foster love for the art of poetry. It organizes the annual Poetry International Festival, the Children’s Poetry Festival, a National Poetry Day, and various international exchange projects. Poetry International also tries to bring poetry to a wider public by posting poems in public areas, on buildings, in railway carriages, even on garbage trucks. Another project is Poetry International’s interactive CD-ROM Via Poetica. The Foundation does essential work as an international poetry archive and documentation centre.
    The heart of the Foundation’s work is the annual poetry festival. From humble beginnings in 1970, the Poetry International Festival has grown to become one of the leading poetry platforms in the world. Every year about forty poets from various countries gather in Rotterdam for the week-long festival, to present their work in their own language and to exchange views. Selections from their poetry are translated into Dutch for the festival — often for the first time. English translations are also provided for the international audience. Afterwards, festivalgoers can relax with life music in the theater cafés.
    If you want to view the site, please be patient — it is full of Javascript and large, slow-loading graphics, and takes quite a while to download.

The Poetry Project at http://www.poetryproject.com/

“The Poetry Project burns like red hot coal in New York’s snow”.

— Allen Ginsberg

Since its founding in 1966, the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery in New York City has been a forum for public literary events and a resource for writers. Over the past 34 years, hundreds of poets, writers and performers, including Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, John Cage, Sam Shepard, Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Terri McMillan, Robert Creeley, Alice Notley, Bernadette Mayer and Kenneth Koch have shared their work at the Poetry Project. With three different reading and performance series a week, plus lectures and special events, the Poetry Project is a vital and hospitable hub for the writing community in New York City. The Poetry Project was the scene of the only joint reading by Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg and has been the site of historic memorials to poets Paul Blackburn, Robert Duncan, Charles Reznikoff, Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby and many others. Staffed completely by poets (but please don’t hold that against them) the Poetry Project challenges, informs and inspires working writers, while remaining accessible to the general public.
      Now in its 33rd season, the Poetry Project continues to offer encouragement and resources to poets, writers, artists and performers whose work is experimental, innovative and pertinent to writing that proposes fresh aesthetic, cultural, philosophical and political approaches to contemporary society.

Poets & Writers in New York City has been around for more than a decade, and the experience shows. Their Internet site is mature and feature-rich, with heaps of information about US contests and grants and awards, residencies, a directory of writers, literary links, news from the writing world, a bookstore, and publishing advice. Their eponymous magazine is equally full of useful information. Check it out at http://www.pw.org/

Poettext.com in the UK is a poetry portal combined with a dedicated online bookshop with over 7,000 titles from at least 300 major publishers. Features: Bookshop, Events listing, Publications, Competitions, Interviews, Poets for the Past, List of Organisations, Tips for Wannabes, a News Archive, an opportunity to submit News/Articles, Awards and Prizes listings and poets’ showcase.
At http://www.poettext.com/.

Rain Taxi Review of Books is a quarterly publication featuring reviews of literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction,with an emphasis on works that push the boundaries of language, narrative, and genre.
     Press profiles, interviews, and in-depth reviews reflect Rain Taxi’s commitment to spreading the word about the best in contemporary literature. Editor: Eric Lorberer.

Readme Edited by Gary Sullivan — a quarterly online journal of poetics featuring interviews, essays and reviews germane to contemporary poetry. Poetry published only in tandem with author interviews and/or critical prose, except in cases of poem-as-reading / critique. Queries welcome. A letters page will be included in issues from 2000. The URL Internet address: http://home.jps.net/~nada Please communicate via email, or mail to:
Gary Sullivan, 558 11th Street, #1B, Brooklyn, NY 11215.

Photograph (‘Steve Abbott’) borrowed from readme #3 thanks to Alysia Abbott.

Red Ink is an exciting new publication from the team that brought you Incorporating Writing and members of The Incwriters Society Client List as editors. Editor Andrew Oldham says: ‘ Subscribing supports not just the magazine but The Society’s continued work to archive and protect writing. It will be published twice a year as a PDF, emailed directly to subscribers, and it will publish selected poems from poets, new photography and art work on the themes of Summer and Winter, with one short story in each issue.’ On the internet at http://www.incwriters.com/

Scottish Pamphlet Poetry

This website has been set up to allow you to find out about Scottish poetry pamphlets. It has been made possible by funding from the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, which offers an annual award to poetry pamphlet publishers, encouraging them, giving them the attention they deserve and displaying them at the National Library of Scotland.

Pamphlets have always been important in poetry publishing but today more than ever they have heightened significance. New technology makes them easier and cheaper to produce. Poets or groups of poets can make their own pamphlets and publishers find them a financially sustainable way of independently making poetry available. Many of the hundreds of excellent poets who have hoped in vain for a book to be (so-called) commercially published, or for a further book after their first, or for a quickly produced book for a particular poem or group of poems, or generally to allow their readership to read their work can now turn to pamphlets with confidence. On the internet at:
http://www.scottish-pamphlet-poetry.com/

Sitaudis, at http://www.sitaudis.com/ is entirely in French. The auteur, Pierre Le Pillouër, has a huge range of materiel under these headings:

Parutions / Excitations / Poèmes and Fictions / Apparitions / Auteurs / Liens

And he has this to say:

Ils comptent sans penser: Il y a toutes sortes de poètes aujourd’hui, très nombreux, des gars assez incultes et dysorthographiques qui se prennent pour des rock stars, des septuagénaires qui s’improvisent cinéastes, des lanceurs de bâtons de pluie, des professeurs en retraite qui posent baudelairiens, des bas bleus qui allument les messieurs en écrivant “Foutez-moi !”, des universitaires qui rêvent de terrorisme nihiliste sans risques, des chômeurs, une chanteuse, des routards, des animateurs d’atelier d’écriture, des touilleurs de mortier, des psys, un gendarme, des écrivains célèbres, des gens qui haïssent la poésie, il y a même des artistes et toute la cohorte de ceux qui disent s’effacer pour écrire. Il y a aussi toutes sortes d’éditeurs, presque aussi nombreux que les premiers, des marchands cyniques et des militants infatigables (moins nombreux que les premiers), des amateurs dans tous les sens et des amateurs de procès (trop perméables aux bêtises de l’époque) qui aimeraient faire taire les voix de discordance, il y a enfin pas mal d’éditeurs poètes et de poètes éditeurs, chacun tenant un blog qu’il faudrait lire mais on trouve de moins en moins de lecteurs : ce site n’a d’autre ambition que de ranimer ces rangs désaffectés.

SLOPE is a bi-monthly, online journal devoted to contemporary poetry being written around the globe in English. Contributors hail from countries including Australia, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The editors say that they encourage new and emerging writers, while continuing to publish award-winning and established poets. Slope occasionally features “sampler” issues.

Recent or upcoming examples include New Avant Poetry (Issue 5), Contemporary Womens Poetry (Issue 6) and New Welsh and British Poetry (Issue 8). Poets featured and/or forthcoming in Slope include James Tate, Forrest Gander, Heather McHugh, Dara Wier, Franz Wright, Eric Pankey, Eugen Jebeleanu, Matthew Rohrer, Mary Jo Bang, Ron Silliman, Joe Wenderoth, John Kinsella, Timothy Liu, Margot Schilpp, Pam Brown, Peter Finch, Kevin Hart, Peter Minter, Brian Henry, Lee Upton, Katy Lederer, Drew Milne, Mark Bibbins, Coral Hull, Graham Foust, Jonathan Monroe, Susan Schultz, Louis Armand, Spencer Selby, Christine Hume, Javant Biarujia, Charles Bernstein, and many others. You can find it hiding under a rigmarole of distracting Javascript and Flash routines at http://www.slope.org/

Sound Eye — Irish Poetry & the Universe of Writing is a new site, growing fast, with pages for poets such as Brian Coffey, Randolph Healy, Trevor Joyce, Michael Smith and Tom Raworth. The editors say that the content will focus on the innovative edge to Irish poetry, and there will also be a full range of supporting materials, including review and survey articles, bibliographies, and news of relevant readings, festivals and conferences.

Spencer Selby’s List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines: gigantic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual, detailed, wide-ranging... go for it. At: http://www.selbyslist.com/

Textbase, in Victoria, Australia

The Transcendental Friend

The Transcendental Friend (a journal of poetry, poetics, art & criticism) is updated on the first of every month, and will present several regular sections, including A Critical Dictionary, The Bestiary, Dialectic, and a Project. Clunky images of Russian cosmonauts beguile the viewer. Something like the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics were it edited by Bataille, Coleridge & Kierkegaard, perhaps... you can find your Friend at http://www.morningred.com/friend, and the editor, Garrett Kalleberg, can be e-mailed at mailto:editor@morningred.com.