~ Early Web Links ~

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.

2River is a long-running independent poetry publisher that has been producing quarterly issues of 'The 2River View' since 1996, featuring contemporary poets across dozens of issues each year. The site also hosts the 2River Chapbook Series, a blog called Muddy Bank with poetry podcasts, and a deep archive spanning nearly 30 volumes.

Founded by Doug Holder, this long-running blog covers the Boston-area small press and poetry community through reviews, interviews, and news from contributors including Dennis Daly, Michael Todd Steffen, and many others. It serves as a vital hub for independent literary culture in New England, with connections to Ibbetson Street Press and coverage stretching well beyond the Boston metro area.

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.

Alicia Mae's poetry page collects heartfelt verse including her own original work alongside contributions from other poets like Danny Dixon and William C. Burns. Visitors will also find an extensive list of curated links to poetry homepages, literary magazines, and organizations like the Academy of American Poets.

Jaka Železnikar created this computational visual poem as a Firefox browser extension, dedicated to his ex-girlfriend Mo Hailun whose name is rendered in Chinese characters. The piece blends code and verse into an interactive digital artwork, representing an unusual intersection of net art, poetry, and browser technology.

Nosepilot 3.4 is a lyrical, image-rich creative work by Alex Sacui, blending poetic verse with vivid imagery about wind, fruit, trombones, and longing. The site reads like an illustrated poem or spoken-word piece, with 145 images accompanying surreal, musical language that feels somewhere between a children's fable and avant-garde literature.

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.

Clare's personal corner of the web offers poems, musings, and heartfelt writing that leans into dark themes like grief, death, and the macabre. Styled with the nostalgic aesthetic of the old web, it promises a moody, intimate space for readers who appreciate queer, leftist, and emotionally raw creative writing.

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.