~ Early Web Links ~

Roll of Nickels is a long-running poetry blog active since 2006, written by a Canadian poet who shares original poems, reviews, interviews, quotes, and reflective essays on the craft of writing. The opening post alone, a moving meditation on reading poetry aloud to a dying husband, signals the depth and emotional intelligence that characterizes this site throughout.

Poetry-Archive.com's links section is a curated directory of poetry resources on the web, organized into general poetry sites, individual poet pages, and related literary categories like plays and theater. Visitors can browse links to major poetry repositories, specific poet biographies, and even love letter and drama resources, making it a broad gateway for poetry enthusiasts.

David Griffin Brown's personal creative corner features his original poetry, a short story, and a play, with new poems added as recently as August 1999. The site is a genuine expression of one person's literary output, participating in a Poetry Webring and inviting visitors to explore his written work alongside personal photos and links.

Poetry.org offers an accessible introduction to the world of poetry, covering its history, meaning, forms, and key terminology for students and enthusiasts alike. The site also features a curated selection of works from celebrated poets including Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and e.e. cummings, alongside a links page connecting visitors to broader poetry resources.

The Longest Poem in the World is an automated project that aggregates rhyming tweets from Twitter in real time to form a continuously growing, ever-expanding poem. It's a fascinating intersection of social media and found poetry, generating an endless collaborative verse from the collective output of the internet.

Language is a Virus is a creative writing resource built around interactive poetry generators, writing prompts, and experimental text tools designed to cure writer's block. Visitors can explore dozens of activities including haiku generators, mad libs, exquisite corpse, flash fiction builders, and literary device guides rooted in the traditions of writers like Burroughs, Bernstein, and Bernadette Mayer.

The Antigone Poems is the official site for a poetry collection by Marie Slaight, featuring art by Terrence Tasker, inspired by the ancient Sophocles tragedy. Described as 'surreal and wild... terrifyingly brilliant,' the book promises an expedition into brutal lyricism drawn from classical Greek drama.

A hauntingly minimalist site by max2019, built around cryptic, lyrical text fragments that evoke grief, memory, and a mysterious figure named Anita. The site's sparse structure and poetic prose give it the feel of a digital memorial or experimental literary piece.

Kate Stange has assembled a small but thoughtful anthology of poems that explore the intersection of mathematics and poetry, featuring works by poets like JoAnne Growney alongside reflections on symmetry, pattern, and the shared elegance of math and verse. Visitors will find poems on topics ranging from Euclidean geometry to Pi, united by the idea that mathematics and artistic expression spring from the same human instinct for pattern.

Gutdonor is a hauntingly atmospheric neocities page built around fragmented, introspective prose and poetic text evoking anxiety, emotional tension, and the struggle to hold oneself together. With evocative imagery, audio, and sparse lyrical fragments, it reads like a mood-driven digital art piece or personal manifesto.