Copyright Law and Fair Use
Maintained by Stanford University, this site offers information and links regarding the laws surrounding published texts.
War in Iraq: Something to Die For (UNObserver & National Report, Spring 2003)
Helping the U.S. Go Head-to-Head with Europe over World Economic Dominance, by Geoffrey Heard. This is an eye-opening article along the lines of hypothetical horror. Imagine a United States endebted and fractured, tumbling from first world status into squallor all because the middle east turned away from the American dollar and took up paying in Euros.
Poets against the War
This site originated on a box somewhere in Port Townsend, Washington, or thereabouts, the brain child (conscience child, heart child, hope child) of Sam Hammill of Copper Canyon Press. More than 13,000 poems live here, and there would be more, if Sam &c had time and life enough to gather and post them. This is a beautiful, horrific place of longing to browse through.
Poerty Renewal
It seems that Poets for the War, formerly listed here, has withered, but www.poetsforthewar.org redirects here. The site's history makes its insightful and informative yet absolute and confrontational presentation of a revolution of closed form poetry ironic. Regardless, this site is a great resource for information about poetic structures from kyrielle dialogues to curtal sonnets, with lots of well-crafted examples and an accessibly pedantic explanatory style.
Seattle Live Literature
As I prepared for my cross country resettling to Seattle, one of my mentoring professors, a poet of west coast origin, mentioned that I was fortunate to be moving to a city so well known for its vibrant literary scene. SLL tries its best to help us find our way into it.
Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
This is it, from Kerouac to the Web to the world. A short list of DOs—hardly a DON'T in the house—designed to empower writers to find themselves and their voices through the liberating practice of writing with freedom and authenticity.
The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce's classic collection of wit, irony, and honest assessment of the way it is lives on the web! While I highly recommend a paper copy for the bookshelf, e-text will certainly suffice.
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