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News, Events, and Reviews
Poetry Flash As advertised "A poetry review and literary calendar for the west". This is probably my favorite ezine of its kind simply because it is west coast, it is useful, and employs some of my favorite poets, annnndddd because it provides a poetry venue list for the entire coast. The Flash is also a print mag.
The Temple Book Store This is Charlie Potts's site of primarily Charlie Potts Books but is an excellent source for poetry and links. They also offer workshops.
Poetix: Southern California - Poetry & Spoken Word Gateway Events, Poets, and Reviews - unfortunately, no poetry
Poetix: Southern California - SLO-Life Kevin's poetry event list sloco
bornmagazine.com Born Magazine is an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media. Original projects are brought to life every three months through creative collaboration between writers and artists.
Boston University's AGNI AGNI is not an acronym, but rather the name of the ancient Vedic god of fire and guardian of mankind. This one of the best ezines on literature and poetry in the US. Thanks, Jean Gerard for this link.
Web Del Sol Fiction and Poetry - a good ezine
For Poets For poets.org is a good web techy poet ezine
every poet This is a great and multi-faceted poetry site - check it out
For Jacqueline Marcus blogging resource
Cortland Review A good ezine on literature and poetry - with audio - but also a lot of sales stuff
Kevin Clark's recommendations Kevin's page is from 1998 but still very useful for plotting a poetry reading course. The problem is the lack of links to the suggested materials or how to get them but doesn't that make for perhaps interesting web searches.
Poetic Diversity This is a really great ezine spot lighting many great poets

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Literature
globusz.com A great free ebook source whose books are in plain text

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Critique Fora
Poet's Free For All a multi-level group of critique fora from general to merciless
Kalliope A great site for critique guidelines and more
Sweet Emotions A Poet's Dream Criticism Guidelines, glossary, and other cool stuff
Critique Guidelines Critique guidelines and procedures for various kinds of poetry
Critique Rules Not especially good but worth considering

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Poetry
Some Billy Collins Opinion - one of the few things we have done right as a country recently is make Billy Collins the national poet laureate. Here are some reasons why.
I Love Poetry****** This is a great site for poetry, for links to other poetry sites, and for submitting your own poetry. (That's right - we are not afraid of pointing you to a site that might take you away from us - for a whileeee). This site provides poetry for every occasion and of every ilk.
Bartleby The complete works of Emily Dickinson, categorized and searchable
Big Bridge Some good, some bad - try to take time to pick through stuff
A variety of poems from UW A bunch of poems from various poets but especially a great one from Mary Mackey
Richard Garcia Richard Garcia is to poetry what Garcia Marquez is to fiction - try him on
Wallace Stevens Modern American Poetry's Wallace Stevens collection
Modern American Poetry index Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford)
Robert Pinsky audio Robert Pinsky commentary and recital of his "Impossible to Tell (My Two Joke Elegy)" - You must hear this!
Robert Pinsky Robert Pinksy online poems on Modern American Poetry
Robert Frost Modern American Poetry's Robert Frost page
Ekphrastic Poetry The puddinghouse.com ekphrastic poetry page
Ekphrasis Academia Ekphrastic Academia: Images, Sounds and Motions in Academic Discourse

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Slam and Performance
Bullhorn Collective This is THE site for slam poetry. Pursue the Wakefield wake. Slake your thirst for those who durst to get liquid.
Invective How to write the rant
defpoetryjam
rubberchickenpoetry.com
epoets.net a treasury of spoken word poetry and poets
OldPoetry
slamnation.com Background and rules of slam poetry - a good entry site
e-poets.net The definitive slam poetry biography and history

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Poets
PoetSeers A good site for brief poet biographies of all eras
Dante Allighieri Society American Italians in Literature
OldPoetry.com This is a great site for studying the old poets. Lots of fun.
/www.jimmysantiagobaca.com Not only a great site but demonstrates what a single disadvantaged person can do. Very inspiring. Thanks, Criss.
cambria

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rubberchickenpoetry.com
Glossary The "I love poetry" glossary is a great ready reference for poetry terms with definitions ample enough to educate

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Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism A good page on literary criticism specific to poetry
Lofting "This site presents a model (IDM -Integration, Differentiation, & Meaning) of the creation, maintenance, and distribution of meaning from the level of the species." This is not a poetry site but may be of interest to those poets who are, in the immortal words of Jackson Browne, deep into their well.

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Education
Glossary The "I love poetry" glossary is a great ready reference for poetry terms with definitions ample enough to educate
Poetry Magic A great site for learning about poetry - more European (after all it is in the UK) more pith less hype

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Visual poetry is a fantastic and alternative approach to poetry.
kaldron Karl Kempton's page
dbqp.blogspot.com a good general view with reviews of what's up in visual poetry

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Any thing not obviously covered by the other categories.
Critique Guidelines This is for fiction
writing.com This is a real tome of writing including poetry of all kinds and all views and definitely worth a perusal.
cambria

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