Poetry

• The Academy of American Poets
  140+ American poets. One of the largest sites of the kind. Includes an instructive essay by Edward Hirsch on how to read a poem.

• Big Bridge
  Webzine of poetry and novels, edited by Michael Rothenberg and Wanda Phipps. A regular poetry section includes Bernadette Mayer, Duncan McNaughton, Justin Chin, Bridget Meeds and others.

• British Poetry 1780-1910 (virginia)
  Extensive collection.

• CAPA-Contemporary American Poetry Archive (conncoll)
  An electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of contemporary American poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers.

• Contemporary Poetry Review
  Reviews books of, and concerning, poetry. An on-line journal devoted to the criticism of poetry, with book reviews, relevant news items, an exclusive chatroom, information concerning new releases, and interviews with distinguished critics, poets, and translators.

• The End of the Line for Modern Poetry (vt)
  Tim Love discusses the value of line-breaks in much free verse. In Gruene Street, Volume 2, Issue #1 (July 1996).

• EPC (Electronic Poetry Center) (buffalo)
  A gateway to resources on contemporary poetry.

• The Face and Place of Poetry
  Offers interviews with three top poetry editors, articles like "Breaking the Long Silence: Ted Hughes on Sylvia Plath," poetry and links.

• Greek Poetry (auth.gr)
  Contemporary Greek poetry in English translation with the originals. Hosted at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

• Modern American Poetry (uiuc)
  A multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford UP, 2000) edited by Cary Nelson. Includes 140+ poet sites.

• Sound Eye - Irish Poetry & the Universe of Writing
  A site for recent Irish poets, including Brian Coffey, Randolph Healy, Trevor Joyce (who maintains this site), Michael Smith, Tom Raworth.

• Lithuanian Poetry
  E-texts of many Lithuanian poems translated into English.

• Modern and Contemporary Poetry (nagoya-u.ac.jp)
  Collection of resources on contemporary poetry. Maintained by Professor Akitoshi Nagahata.

• NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art. Poetry & Stories
  Extensive collection.

• Patrick Martin's Web Page: The Poetry Resource
  Extensive collection of links related to poetry, poets, and organizations.

• A Poetry-Lover's Guide To the World-Wide Web
  The guide consists of 90 poems and 65 links to other poetry collections and guides.

• The Poetry Society
  Has many features such as poetry places, poetry review, the poetry cafe, national poetry day, poetry workshop, poetry events, the national poetry competition, poetry news, selected poet, poetry in education, links, and magnetic poetry.

• Poets' Corner
  800+ poems from 250+ poets. From medieval ballads in Middle English to poems of the early 20th century.

• An Index of Poets in Representative Poetry On-line (utoronto.ca)
  Poetry edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present. Includes many twentieth-century poets.

• Sonnet Central
  An archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, and relevant web links. Includes sonnets of World War I and early twentieth-century.

• Thermopylae
  A literary e-zine featuring verse by established American poets, including Dana Gioia, R. S. Gwynn, and Charles Martin.

• Poetry Previews
  A free resource for readers (of poetry). Many annotated links. 'Pick of the month' features poetry books.

Poets

• Poetry of Joseph Brodsky (1940-96) (umn)
  E-text of 10+ poems of 1987 Nobelist poet (including those from A Part of Speech) translated into English. Links and other materials, including links for KOI-8 Cyrillic encoding.

• Constantine Peter Cavafy (1863-1933)
  E-text of 30+ poems translated into English by George Barbanis.

• Billy Collins
  E-text of poems by the American poet Billy Collins. Includes his recordings and interviews.

• Dusty's Poetry Index
  E-text of 20+ poems by Dusty, who was a nurse in Vietnam. You can hear her read her poems.

• Trevor Joyce
  E-text of 10 poems by the Irish poet Trevor Joyce, co-founder of New Writers' Press, Dublin.

• Poetry of William Marr
  E-text of poems from his Autumn Window (1995, 1996). E-text of his newer poems is also available.

• Moonrabbit Blues
  Lee Ann Roripaugh's Poetry Page. Her Beyond Heart Mountain, being published by Viking Penguin, is a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. Includes poetry links and links pertaining to Japanese American internment during World War II

• Peter Nicholson
  E-text of poems and essays by the Australian poet Peter Nicholson.

• Christy Sheffield Sanford Index
  Includes e-text of Sanford's "Georgette's Revenge" (an electronic palimpsest, Sanford calls).

• David Wheldon, Novelist and Poet
  E-text of poems and prose works (including the award-winning The Viaduct) by the English poet David Wheldon, a physician-writer. New URL since May 2000.

Misc.

• Bookshop Links
  You can order poetry books online. My collection of UK & US shops.

• Mitsuharu Matsuoka (nagoya-u.ac.jp)
  Wealth of info on Anglo-American literature.

• Modernist Journals Project (brown)
  It is putting online The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art (edited in London by A. R. Orage from 1907 to 1922) in PDF format (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader) as part of the project of providing online editions of English-language journals that were important in shaping those modes of literature and art that came to be called modernist. It is searchable. Edited by Professor Robert Scholes, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University.

Quid prodest hoc ad aeternitatem
Professor Eiichi Hishikawa
Faculty of Letters, Kobe University