PT Recommends...
Sites to Visit
A Growing List of Sites We've Covered and Ones We Use Regularly
The Poetry Archive - Founded by former UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, the Poetry Archive is easily the best place online to find recordings of poems read by the poets themselves. If you're looking to spend hours delighting in the voices of your favorite poets, look no further.
The Literary Platform - The Literary Platform does for literature in general what we do for poetry in particular. This is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in the experimentation going on between literature and technology. We also enjoy that they 'encourage debate.'
Poetry Society of America - Celebrating their centennial this year, the PSA is the oldest poetry organization, and though its based in NYC and holds a great deal of events there, it has a very strong online presence. Of all their programs, Poetry in Motion is our favorite.
Cyberarts Web - From Brown University, this site was one of the earliest places to find art being combined with technology in an innovative way. Though others have picked up the ball since then, it's still worth visiting to understand where we started and how far we've come.
Open Micro - A tumblog of micropoetry from across the Web. This site is a great introduction to the idea of micropoetry in general.
The Library of Congress - Though not the first place you'd go when poetry is in mind, the LOC's website serves as the online base-of-operations for Poet Laureate Kay Ryan.
Twenty Not Two Thousand - A heartfelt attempt to keep the same way of saying four-digit dates aloud, rather than changing it for this new millenium. So far they seem like they're on the losing side of the battle, but we admire and support their efforts.
The Poetry Foundation - One of the most active poetry organizations on the web and elsewhere, the Poetry Foundation's website boasts a plethora of poetry tools, an informative magazine, two podcasts, and a collection of very cool virtual poetry tours.
Read Write Poem - Beginning as a great poetry blog, this site has developed into a major destination for poets on the web. A full-featured social network, this 'Facebook for poets' is the source of a lot of discussion in the online poetry community.
Sigma Tau Delta - The website for the National English Honor Society. Can we get a 'whoop whoop' from all the English majors out there?
ReadWriteThink - This site provides a plethora of information for young writers, helping them to learn critical reading and thinking skills.
Electric Literature - Still a fledgling organization, Electric Literature publishes short fiction and other exclusive content especially for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Just recently they've come out with a Kindle and DRM-free e-book version of the mag, as well as a good old paperback.
LimerickDB - A database of limericks consistently updated in the style of other popular database sites. A must-see for rhyme lovers.
TwiHaiku - This site is associated with a Twitter account and allows users to write their own haiku and have them distributed, anonymously or otherwise, to TwiHaiku's followers.
VisualPoetry - The name says it all! Awesome yearly visual representations of poetry as part of the Poetry on the Road festival. Definitely worth a second and third look.
SciFaiku - The central site for an entire subgenre of haiku that was born and bred on the Internet. Despite its old look, this site is still updated regularly. You can find the 'SciFaiku Manifesto' here, too.
Bartleby - One of the earliest and best e-text archives, founded by the first webmaster at Columbia University. Bartleby includes a very large collection of poetic e-texts, and has a great deal of works you can't find anywhere else.
National Literacy Trust - The UK's National Literacy Trust is dedicated to helping kids learn to read. We can't think of any pursuit more noble.
Oxt Weekend - Like TwentyNotTwoThousand, this site attempts to change our way of speaking. But instead of eliminating new ways of saying things, this site would like to add a word to the lexicon. The goal is to make it easier to describe time in the not-immediate but not-too-distant future. We hope this will catch on!
Billy Collins' Action Poetry - Former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins is one of the most well-known living American poets, and was one of the first to create animations of his poetry exclusively for online distribution. This site is no longer being updated as far as we can tell, but it's a classic nonetheless.
