~ Early Web Links ~

The Poetry Kit is a comprehensive hub for poets worldwide, managed by Jim Bennett and founded by Ted Slade, offering listings of open mic events, competitions, magazines, and online poetry courses across dozens of countries. With an ISSN-registered newsletter, a bookshelf of recommended titles, calls for submissions, and an archive of over 600 poems from 21 countries, it serves as an essential resource for both emerging and established poets.

Alex Dreppec is a prolific German poet and author who invented the Science Slam format in 2004 and has published poetry on five continents. His English-language page showcases his bilingual poetry books, international magazine publications, prize wins including the Wilhelm Busch Prize, and samples of his witty, alliterative verse.

Arbourtrary is the creative home of a developer-poet who blends nature, mathematics, and verse into a richly layered personal site. Visitors can explore original poems, generative sketches, data-driven projects like NBA Recordigami, and a lifelong music chronology with personal blurbs for each beloved song.

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) is the official home of a registered US non-profit founded in 1978 to connect poets and readers passionate about speculative poetry. The site offers membership information, two published magazines, annual award listings including the prestigious Rhysling Award, poetry contests, market resources, and a bibliography of speculative poetry.

Cato's Archive is a charming personal site framed as a literary archive, with poetry as its centerpiece alongside a curated library of books, software, and recipes. The creator, Cato, gives the site a warm archival personality, inviting visitors to explore shelves of collected poems and seasonal reading recommendations focused on classical literature.

Dylan Harris, a British expat living in Luxembourg, presents his grand portfolio of original poetry and photography spanning decades of creative work. The site features published books and prints, a growing collection of poems, and a distinctly self-deprecating personality that makes browsing his considerable body of work genuinely enjoyable.

Poets' Corner is a vast collaborative poetry archive containing over 7,400 works by 800 poets, maintained by a distributed team of editors across the United States since 1994. Visitors can browse by author, subject, or use a search tool to explore classical and traditional poetry, with digital portrait paintings of featured poets adding a visual dimension to the collection.

The Fine-Arts Bluesband & Poetry Press has been publishing a monthly featured poem since 1995, creating an extraordinary archive of over three decades of original poetry. Each month brings a new selection with evocative imagery and haiku-like brevity, and the archive is navigable by year all the way back to the mid-nineties.

Via Negativa is Dave Bonta's long-running poetry blog, active since 2003, featuring original erasure poems derived from Samuel Pepys' diary alongside contributions from poet Luisa A. Igloria. The site is a rich archive of daily poetry practice, collaborative verse exchanges, and poetry in response to visual art and nature photography.

Auriea Harvey's site presents a haunting, minimalist piece of prose poetry that evokes texture, transformation, and the unknowable through vivid sensory imagery. The spare formatting and cryptic text give it the feel of a digital art object as much as a written work.