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sites with legs


ubu.com


Site edited by Kenneth Goldsmith. Amazing collection of concrete, digital, and sound poetry (in RealAudio and .mp3) as well as essays on poetry and music. Soon to house the .pdf series /ubu, edited by yours truly.


go west, youngish cyborg

slought networks


Powered by Aaron Levy, slought is a little bit of everything -- sound, poetry, performance, theory, even a listserv devoted to the writing of Alan Davies -- and you should get on their mailing list to really find out what's going on, especially if you live in Philadelphia.


ought, sloughta

Small Press Distribution


Ok, not an art site, but these are the good guys! Go here to find all the books your psychotic college buddies always told you about but you could never find at Barnes & Noble.


do you take woostercard?

Beehive


One of the longest running sites of digital poetry and literature; also contains a fairly large selection of theory and criticism.


follow the buzz

Iowa Review Web


Don't ask me why the Iowa writer's program has taken an interest in digital poetry, but this site, now under the editorship of Thomas Swiss, promises to be an important portal.


idaho?

North American Centre for Interdisciplinary Poetics


A new php-site continually updated with writings on architectural poetics, cognitive poetics, cyberpoetics, ethnopoetics and parapoetics -- get over there to find out what this all means. Maintained by Steve McCaffery and Gregory Betts out of York University in Canada.


warum nicht?

Jacket


One of the few literary poetry websites to really make an impression in the print world, John Tranter's Jacket is something of a model of clean navigation and a variable but stable template of graphic and typesetting options.


to where the water swirls opposite

Coach House Books


Coach House Books in Canada may be the only North American publisher to put all of their content online. Some of their projects, like the recent addition of the entirety of Bruce Andrews' Lip Service, are exceptional examples of how to publish print-based work using HTML.


north of attention

Electronic Poetry Center


The grandaddy poetry website of them all, the EPC, maintained by cyberpoet/critic Los Pequeño Glazier, is a huge storehouse of author pages, sound files, links, interviews, weird stuff. Though it won't win any design awards, a great place to browse.


where do I get one?

Poems That Go


While some of this is not to my taste -- a bit "illustrational" if that means anything -- there is a great amount of visual and sound design that goes into these often very filmic pieces, and several of the works are very innovative. Good selection of links to ideas and aesthetics.


the eyes have it

rhizome.org


Though not technically a literary site, rhizome's cache of projects is growing every day and contains everything from interactive dictioaries to 3D textual interfaces, and is also beginning to stock cyberpoets more and more (cf. Jim Andrews and myself). Subscribe to one of their email lists, such as "Net Art" site of the day -- spam we like.


i'm jonesing for spam

Electronic Book Review


A very beautifully designed site that contains books reviews and interactive essays on topics concerning the digital artist and writer. Contributors have incuded Mark Amerika (the publisher), Dodie Bellamy, Charles Bernstein, David Buuck and John Cayley -- and that's just up to C.


long and winding road...




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