Online poetry resources

I'm compiling some lists for Anna & Emma, two students about to enter the 9th grade, who are doing an independent study with me this summer on contemporary poetry. We've been reading Juliana Spahr's Well Then There Now, Joseph Lease's Testify, and Jennifer Moxley's The Line. They are some hardcore young people.

This first list is of online resources; it will be revised and updated. Coming soon: a list of great paper journals.

http://jacket2.org/
The single best place for all things relating to boundary-pushing poetry


http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/
Eclipse—lots of scans of older small-run books (language poets esp.); super useful


http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/
The Electronic Poetry Center—lots of useful information on poets

http://ubuweb.com/
Amazing archive of sound/visual/avant-garde poetry

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
Penn Sound—archive of recordings of poets

http://www.critiphoria.org/
Super strong collection of poets

http://littleredleaves.com/
Annual journal—really smart—also includes PDFs of chapbook-length projects

http://htmlgiant.com/
Lots of writing about writing—interesting articles—as well as creative work

http://www.alicebluereview.org/main.html
Fiction & poetry

http://www.durationpress.com/
International poetry

http://www.wombpoetry.com/
Poetry by women

http://www.deepoakland.org/
Site-based investigations, poetry & prose

http://disinhibitor.blogspot.com/
Poet Michael Cross’s blog—lots of great reviews of great books

www.actionyes.org
Politics & poetry

http://ecopoetics.wordpress.com/
Environment & poetry

http://www.thirdfactory.net/
Compiles an annual list of various peoples’ favorite poetry books/journals/etc.

http://www.brooklynrail.org/
Art & culture

http://blog.sfmoma.org/
Suzanne Stein at SF MOMA brings together some really smart people for this project

http://www.trickhouse.org
Beautifully designed, lots of beautiful work (Phoebe Wayne in the current issue is amazing)

http://www.onedit.net/
Poetry journal

http://www.raintaxi.com/
Good reviews

http://galatearesurrects.blogspot.com/
Good reviews

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/
Many good guest bloggers

http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
At one time the clearinghouse for poetry news, though no longer; still useful

http://www.shampoopoetry.com/
Lots of good poetry


http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/
Steven Fama writes long and smart reviews of lots of different poetry books


http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Chronic/index.html
Great press and paper journal, also publishes excellent work online

http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/
Good reviews by a range of writers

http://www.h-ngm-n.com/
Poetry and chapbooks

http://davidwolach.blogspot.com/
David Wolach's smart, smart blog

http://whof.blogspot.com/
Thom Donovan's likewise excellent blog—lots of great stuff on art & music as well as poetry

http://jupiter88poetry.blogspot.com/
A video journal run by the inimitable CA Conrad—he brings in some amazing folks

http://somaticpoetryexercises.blogspot.com/
Speaking of CA Conrad, these poetry exercises are unlike anything else.


http://www.labday2010.blogspot.com/
Poets writing about work/labor—the paying kind

http://www.eveningwillcome.com/
New-ish, but very promising

http://petroleusepress.com/download
Longer projects


http://andrewkenower.typep​ad.com/
Recordings of live readings in the Bay Area

http://www.drunkenboat.com/
Art & culture


https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter
San Francisco State Poetry Center's Digital Archive

http://ww2.rediscov.com/sacknerarchives/Welcome.aspx
Visual & concrete poetry archive

http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/

HOW2—innovative poetry by women

Memory

8th graders graduated yesterday at my work. A class I was very close to.

Speaking to a grandmother of a student about her husband's recent death; I had sent that student Whitman's Hymn for Death from When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd as it'd meant much to me during my mother's passing; esta abuela me dijo: "tu entiendes algo de la perdida" (o quizas me dijo "algo de la muerte"?); I responded with the story of the month between Sonia's birth & my mother's death. Things you can't forget.

I'm going to miss that class.

I found this poem & I can't remembering writing it. Did I write that? Is this poem mine? It's about some of my obsessions, so maybe it is.

& then it was asked—by the air, let’s say—
what do we do, painting pictures, seeking
the abstraction of to be in the contradictions
of the day? Or better: stand & shout. Or
better: make it pretty. Or better: don’t add
to heartache. Or better: tell a story of the
time you spent staring at the time & were
left empty of money, built of money, money
talks so talk more bucks. Better. Insipid to
wish for a home which didn’t bomb homes
with the $ spent to build it. Admit it. Air
asks. Sirens respond. Air empties. Sirens.

Hugs—

Dan

Interview

Taiga's issue T has arrived, and is beautiful. New site for them too, here:

Taiga Journal

I did a short interview for them, as did erica lewis, my collaborator on the piece in the issue—and she has an interview up as well. Check potion!

Interview is here.

Physical iterations

Bound materials & bodies—

Jen Hofer's class at California Institute of the Arts is talking W+S, among other Tiny Press Practices.

Taiga, returned from hiatus, has a new issue that includes a collaborative poem I wrote with Erica Lewis.

TRY, trying out a piece of the Great American Beatjack Vol. I.

Other Letters

Thom Donovan has set out to do something that feels very much like a corollary to his work as part of the ON: Contemporary Practice editorial team. In Other Letters, his new site project, he wants to document the letters and emails that poets, writers, and artists exchange with each other. I'm honored to be featured in the inaugural post, with the incredibly generative series of emails Stephanie Young and I exchanged around the 880 project that is linked on the sidebar of the blog.

Onthology/audio feature

Exciting news from Baltimore—Christophe Casamassima has me as a featured poet as part of his audio anthology project.

Check it out here.

Attention Span 2010, Dana Ward, props

thanks, Dana, for the W+S shout out.

Check out Dana's list—and the whole (and wholly excellent) Attention Span 2010 at:

Dana's List.
The 2010 List.

In addition to Dana's I highly recommend the lists of Brent Cunningham, Jennifer Scappettone, Joshua Edwards, Barbara Jane Reyes (especially her take on Murillo's Up Jump the Boogie, very smart), Kevin Killian (love his reading of A Community Writing Itself), and Suzanne Stein.

So yeah, there's a lot to like.