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National Poetry Day - 7/10/99
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National Poetry Day - Poetry on the Web

Compiling a list of poetry resources on the Web, and sifting the good from the truly mediocre, is a task that could keep a misguided soul busy for weeks. So to mark National Poetry Day, CTI Textual Studies have decided to bring to your attention one poetry site, one poet's site and one writing site to which poetry may be submitted.

Poetry Site:
The Internet Poetry Archive
http://metalab.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/

Since so much poetry exists to be heard, then this site, based at the University of North Carolina, offers a fine model of how the Web might present poetry. Selected works from a number of contemporary poets - Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinskey and Margaret Walker - are offered as text on screen accompanied by recordings of the authors reading their works available as RealAudio files. To so easily listen to the grainy, authoritative voice of Margaret Walker reading her own love poetry brings a power to her work unavailable on the page or screen. Recordings of the poets' answers to audience questions and of panel discussions about their work, a critical biography and a short bibliography are also available for each poet.

Poet's Site:
Peter Finch Archive

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/peter.finch/
Experimental, accessible and sometimes very funny, Peter Finch's poetry is only one part of this voluminous site. It is also a personal biography, a collection of reviews, a great collection of links to other poetry sites and a place in which Finch provides excerpts from his excellent guides to self-publishing.

Writing Site:
trAce - Online Writing Community
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/

This attractively-presented and expansive site, based at Nottingham Trent University, explores and supports the ways in which writing and writers can start out and grow online and off. The tremendously resourceful Web site is the gateway to email conferences where writing can be submitted for others to read and discuss online and to virtual meeting rooms where weekly live online discussions on particular themes take place. trAce Writers-in-residence host virtual and face-to-face workshops and seminars and the trAce site also publishes the results of online projects and collaborations between writers, readers, artists and programmers. If you are looking for a guide to poetry and writing sites online, then their trAced section with its annotated links is a fine place to start.


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