Recommended Literary Links


Arcanum Cafe
This site features over a dozen differently-themed poetry forums including (among others) spirituality, haiku, dark poetry, & teen poetry. It is well-visited site with a lot of artistic power & community enthusiasm. Very much worth visiting.

Atlantic Unbound
One of the best and most intelligent magazines in America--"bound in 1857; unbound since 1993"--has a large and varied website featuring prose and poetry from the print magazine, archives, "web-only features," and a readers' forum, "Post & Reposte," that features, among other things, a place for people to post their own creative writing.

Big Bridge
A California webzine which contains some terrific poetry, fiction, and artwork/photography. It also publishes chapbooks and selected pieces from "little magazines." An altogether impressive site.

Evergreen Review
From 1957 to 1973, the Evergreen Review was a vital counterculture literary journal. After twenty-five years of dormancy, ER re-launched on the Web. Well worth visiting.

Outloud Open Mike at the Beebe Mansion in Melrose Massachusetts
Monthly gathering of writers, artists, & performers at a beautiful venue just north of Boston.

Steam Shovel Press
This site bills itself as 'all conspiracy. no theory' & is one of the best doorways into the net's underground world of visionaries, crackpots, angels, & demons.

still
This peculiarly resonant English site is devoted to haiku and short poems. Its unique look places each poem in the center of an otherwise blank page, thus compelling the reader to consider the words against the context of empty white space.

Zine World: A Reader's Guide to the Underground Press
This site is the online presence of the Reader's Guide, a periodical devoted to the Zine counterculture. The site features sample reviews, letters, links, ordering information, and a listing of zine distributors. It is a valuable site in itself and a good place to begin one's delving into the world of zine publishing.

Zyzzyva
This San Francisco journal publishes exclusively poetry, prose, and artwork by West Coast writers and artists. Its site features selected works from the print journal.





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