Hypertexts, e-poetry, and netcessary* literature
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Annie Abrahams: Wishes
Avoision:
virus
first snow
one fiction
Caroline Bergvall: Ambient Fish
Natalie Bookchin: The Intruder
Linda
Crespi (some only work in Explorer):
Torch
Mutability
Ze Frank:
what we want
help illustrate
a poem
quotes
letters
trees
Kenneth Goldsmith: Fidget
Jennifer
Ley:
The Amniotic Meander
Murmur
Fool's Gold
Jason Lewis: Nine
Jessy Randall (some only work
in Explorer):
The Seventh
Grade Poems
A Letter
from Henry
Brian Kim Stefans: The Dreamlife of Letters
Dan Waber: Strings
Lots more about e-poetry at ELO (Electronic Literature Organization), The Electronic Poetry Center, Peter Howard's Hypertext Poetry and Web Art, and Poems that Go, a now-defunct magazine. Or try The Shape of a Box, a youtube lit mag, or Here Explodes My Giant Face, which publishes poetry videos. And there are at least three literary magazines on Twitter: Baby Trotsky, Form.Reborn, and Outshine.
Online magazines
A few top tier online literary magazines
Cortland Review http://www.cortlandreview.com/
(has audiofiles)
McSweeney's, http://www.mcsweeneys.net
(humor)
Pedestal, http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/
(pays!)
And several more (just a small sample)
Boxcar Poetry Review, http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/main.html (poetry)
Coconut, http://www.coconutpoetry.org/
(experimental poetry)
Eclectica, http://www.eclectica.org/
(poetry, fiction, essays)
Goblin Fruit, http://www.goblinfruit.net (fantastical poetry)
H_NGM_N, http://www.h-ngm-n.com/
(poetry and poetics, chapbooks)
ken*again, http://kenagain.freeservers.com
(poetry, around since 2000)
Slow Trains, http://www.slowtrains.com/index.shtml
(poetry, fiction, essays)
Snakeskin, http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/
(poetry, monthly, since the 1990s)
Stirring, http://www.sundress.net/stirring/
(poetry, monthly)
Strange Horizons, http://www.strangehorizons.com/ (speculative literature)
Tattoo Highway, http://www.tattoohighway.org/
(poetry and fiction, themes)
2River View, http://www.2river.org
(poetry, chapbooks)
Wicked Alice, http://www.sundress.net/wickedalice/
(women-centered poetry)
Databases and other lists of online magazines
John Labovitz's e-zine list,
http://www.e-zine-list.com/
(now maintained by the Thank You But No cooperative)
Duotrope's Digest, http://www.duotrope.com/index.aspx
(includes a free online submissions tracker)
Web Del Sol's top-fifty list, 2009 (includes both online and paper journals).
Contests and calls for submissions
The classified section of Poets and Writers is updated regularly.
My advice
Find a magazine you like a lot and then use its link page to find others. Or, do a Google search on a contemporary poet you admire, and see what magazines turn up that way.
Further reading
Find books in a
library near you with Open WorldCat
Louis Armand, ed. Contemporary Poetics. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007. In particular, see Marjorie Perloff's chapter "Screening the Page / Paging the Screen: Differential Poetics and the Differential Text."
C.T. Funkhouser. Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.
Loss Pequeno Glazier. Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
*literature for which the internet is necessary
