New & Noteworthy Links
For our regular visitors, here's a continuously updated collection of the newest must-see Web sites added to our many libraries of poetry links, newest on top.
Mad City Poetry10/2/2000
A new nexus of poetry info for Madison, Wisconsin: check here for a calendar of featured readings & performances, listings of open mikes & slams & local poets' news.
Salmon Bay Readings & Links
Salmon Bay Review, a Seattle-based Webzine of essays & poetry book reviews, has gathered links to various Seattle reading series calendars for your planning convenience.
Copper Canyon Press
Copper Canyon Press truly is the premier U.S. publisher devoted exclusively to poetry. Their author list speaks for itself: Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, Lucille Clifton, Carolyn Kizer, W.S. Merwin, Su Tung-p'o, Hayden Carruth, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, Olga Broumas, David Lee. . . .
Talonbooks
Talonbooks began as a high school lit zine in Vancouver, whose editors brought it with them to the University of British Columbia & beyond -- it has been publishing “works of national and international excellence, whose authors happen to be Canadian” for 30 years now & its authors include such luminaries as bpNichol, bill bissett & Adeena Karasick.
HarperCollins Publishers updated 9/17/2000
Despite their severe cutbacks last year, HarperCollins is still an imprint to look to for some wonderful poetry, from Ginsberg's Selected Poems 1947-1995 to Coleman Barks' Essential Rumi and Jane Hirshfield's beautiful & illuminating collection of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. (Their site is incomplete & frustrating, however; best browse the bookstore instead.)
Harvard University Press updated 9/17/2000
Harvard University Press publishes a great deal of poetry criticism (most notably, the books of Helen Vendler) & lots of poetry, too (a new variorum edition of Emily Dickinson's poems & the complete poems of John Keats). But poetry is no longer a category in their subject index, so the poetry books are hard to find in the catalog.
HMS Press updated 9/17/2000
“Publishing Canadian authors since 1982,” HMS Press has pretty much switched over to publishing books on disk, including poetry CDs, available by email order.
Knopf Poetry Center updated 9/17/2000
Opened on the Web in celebration of National Poetry Month 1999, the Knopf Poetry Center has a complete catalog of poetry published under Random House imprints.
litpress.com updated 9/17/2000
Litpress contains Margin to Margin, Seeing Eye Books and the archives of the former Witz (journal of contemporary poetics), plus a page of links to other independent literary presses & journals.
William Carlos Williams updated 9/15/2000
Read the poems first, always. Seven of Dr. Williams' are posted on his page at AAP, including a RealAudio recording of “To Elsie” in WCW's own voice. There's also a bibliography to lead you into his poetry.
William Carlos Williams updated 9/15/2000
For background, biography & commentary on Williams' work, visit Modern American Poetry's Williams collection, Ben Johnson's Modernism page on Williams & the PBS Voices & Visions feature, which includes a video clip of “The Great Figure.”
Cin(E)-Poetry Archive
The National Poetry Association in San Francisco has sponsored an annual Poetry Film Festival since way back when (now known as the Cin(E)-Poetry Fest, this year's is the 25th) -- & selected poetry films are available in streaming video for viewing on the Web.
NYCSlams
Get your RealPlayer out & visit this new site for an excellent collection of videos from the New York City Slam scene: Roger Bonair-Agard, Taylor Mali, Lynne Procope, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Bassey Ikoi, Beau Sia & more. It's the whole package of performance poetry, live on your computer screen.
