Primary Contact:
Liza Palmer
Email:
palmerl@uncw.edu
Phone:
910-962-4234
IM Chat Name:
AIM: lizajpalmer

Primary Contact:
John Osinski
Email:
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Phone:
910-962-4271
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Meta sites: Starting points

Electronic Poetry Center. Jointly authored by the Poetics Program and the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo, the "EPC serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics at the University at Buffalo and on the Web at large." It contains links to a large number of authors, magazines, presses, poetry organizations, and audio poetry files and maintains a curated collection of literary works. Poet and scholar Loss Pequeño Glazier is EPC’s director and founder. Access: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/.

Voice of the Shuttle: Technology of Writing. Over the years, Alan Liu’s Voice of the Shuttle has been an excellent resource for humanities scholars. The Technology of Writing section provides access to a wide variety of resources, including a great many discussing the theory behind different types of e-poetry. Access: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2733.

Collections of e-poetry
Arras: New Media Poetry and Poetics. Designed and edited by Brian Kim Stefans, Arras collects a wide variety of works by new media artists. Stefans kindly alerts readers about which plug-ins each work uses. Access: http://www.arras.net/web_poetry.htm.

ASL Quest. Web site authors Linda Wall and Mike Brunner have collected Flash and QuickTime poems performed in American Sign Language. Their links section also provides access to online sign language dictionaries. Access: http://aslquest.deafbase.com/.

UbuWeb: Visual • Concrete • Sound. Published by Kenneth Goldsmith and written by Jerome Rothenberg, Andrew Stafford and Brian Kim Stefans, UbuWeb is "the definitive source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry." UbuWeb contains an amazing amount of contemporary and historical poetry and poetry theory. The philosophy of the site is summed up on the resources page by this sentence: "Essentially a gift economy, poetry is the perfect space to practice utopian politics." Access: http://www.ubu.com/.

VISPO LANGU(IM)AGE. This important site created by Jim Andrews focuses on new media poetry and other avant garde forms of the genre. Access: http://vispo.com/misc/links.htm.

Examples of individual poems
COG. According to author Loss Pequeño Glazier, "COG is a user-interactive experiment in the visual possibilities of a poem." It was created using Flash. Access: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier/e-poetry/cog/.

Frame Work: A Hypertext Poem. This piece by Robert Kendall was originally published in the Iowa Review Web. It uses frames and JavaScript to create a hypertext environment. Access: http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eiareview/tirweb/hypermedia/robert_kendall/.

Magazines: Electronic serials that publish poetry and other art forms
Agnieska’s Dowry (AgD). If nothing else in this article has blown your mind, AgD, edited by katerina grace craig and Mark Lugowski, is sure to do so. It is a serial (it even has an ISBN), but it is arranged in a highly nontraditional manner. Be sure to check out AgD Intro/Index link at the bottom of the page for a linear explanation of how to read this publication. Access: http://asgp.org/agnieszka.html.

The Iowa Review Web. Focusing on new media, Thomas Swiss is the Iowa Review Web’s editor and Ingrid Ankerson is the associate editor/designer. The Iowa Review Web is sponsored by the University of Iowa’s English Department and is "well-known for its commitment to new writing." Access: http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eiareview/mainpages/tirwebhome.htm.

Mudlark: An Electronic Journal of Poetry and Poetics. William Slaughter has been editing and publishing this serial since 1995. Each issue usually focuses on a single author or theme. Access: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/.

Journals: Academic explorations of e-poetry and its theory
NMEDIAC: The Journal of New Media and Culture. This ambitious project is under the direction of Jonathan Lillie. According to the front page, NMEDIAC will publish "peer-reviewed papers and audiovisual pieces which contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses." Access: http://www.ibiblio.org/nmediac/.

Electronic Poetry Review. This journal is dedicated to publishing poetry, as well as interviews with poets, essays, and book reviews. It is edited by Katherine Swiggart and D. A. Powell. Access: http://www.poetry.org/.

Poems that Go. According to editors Megan Sapnar and Ingrid Ankerson, this journal "explores the intersections between motion, sound, image, text, and code. The work we feature explores how language is shaped in new media spaces, how interactivity can change the meaning of a sign, how an image can conflict with a sound, and how code exerts machine-order on a text." Access: http://www.poemsthatgo.com/.

Articles: Helpful readings
Hypertext Poetry vs. Print Poetry. This short, helpful article by Andrew Strycharski, a lecturer at the University of Miami, compares and contrasts a traditional poem and a hypertext poem, both entitled "Insomnia." Access: http://composition.miami.edu/~strycharski/link02/brodyWeb/page_five.html.

Forums: Informal electronic publishing communities
The Web Poetry Corner. Web Poetry Corner allows users to search by author’s name, date of submission, and author’s country. It also has a sub-forum for children, allows people to publish their poetry for free, and contains over 22,000 poems by more than 3,500 poets. Access: http://www.dreamagic.com/poetry/poetry.html.

Poetry Poem. This resource provides free Web sites for poets to publish their works and has a section called PoetryChat for discussion of various aspects of poetry. Access: http://www.poetrypoem.com.

Workshops: Places to get formal feedback, criticism, and direction
Eratosphere. Sponsored by AbleMuse: A Review of Metrical Poetry, Eratosphere allows writers to post their own metrical and nonmetrical poetry and get feedback from other poets. Access: http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/Ultimate.cgi/.

trAce: Online Writing Centre. trAce is under the directorship of Sue Thomas and Helen Whitehead, both faculty members of Nottingham Trent University’s English and Media Studies Department. Membership is free, but workshops and courses designed around various genres, including hypertext and poetry, are fee-based. Access: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/about/index.cfm.

Collection of Novels
Read North Carolina Novels - "Read North Carolina Novels" is a reader's advisory site featuring recent works of fiction set in North Carolina. The titles are drawn from the North Carolina Collection's extensive collection of North Carolina literature. On the website, users are able to browse by author or to view lists of novels by the region or the county in which they are set.

Bibliomania - An alphabetical list of all the fiction available to read for free on Bibliomania. Click on a book you wish to read to go straight to the book summary and table of contents. If you wish to see everything Bibliomania has for a particular Author, click "choose" in the left hand navigation bar and pick an Author. The Author pages also include biographies and links to Bibliomania recommended web sites. Access: http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html

Science and Mathematics Education Center | Science Literature Database
http://www.uncw.edu/smec/gk_fellows/booksearch-start.html

The websites above are suggestions to aid in your research. They are not intended to be a specific endorsement of content, other than that the Randall Library believes it to be a useful research resource. They are not a comprehensive list of resources for this topic and should not be the reseracher's only resource. The Randall Library is not responsible for the validity or relevance of content on the websites above, nor does it purposefully mean to mislead the researcher towards a specific topic, philosophy, or concept.

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