Working on this site, and on our various programs, we have been
exposed to a wealth of poetry on the net and off. Here is a small
sampling, divided into sections for ease of use. The most recent
additions are below.
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“It is the secret sympathy,
The silver
link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In
body and in soul can bind.”
–Sir Walter Scott
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The Vancouver Society of Storytelling is committed to the
development and encouragement of storytelling as an art form and
to increase the public's appreciation of storytelling and oral
traditions. There is a strong commitment to multiculturalism and
service to the storytelling community.
The Society operates the annual Vancouver
Storytelling Festival. |
Vancouver
Society
of
Storytelling |
| Vincent Kamberk is a multidisciplinary artist whose work
revolves around automatism and play. Those who lived in or visited
Vancouver in the 90’s would be familiar with his work if not his
name, having seen his rockbalancing displays amongst others. |
Vincent
Kamberk |
| Webartery.com is an internationally collaborative site devoted
to showcasing and furthering the art of the World Wide Web, and
they do mean World Wide. |
webartery.com |
| Insomniac Press was founded in 1992 by Mike O'Connor. The
press originally produced ‘chapbooks’ or small, limited-edition
books of prose and poetry. After these chapbooks proved
successful, Insomniac started producing perfect-bound books in
1993. The press was very soon able to secure distribution
agreements in Canada and the United Kingdom. |
Insomniac
Press |
| The mission of the Around The Coyote is to develop an
inclusive cultural community in Chicago, with emphasis on
exhibiting the work of established and emerging local talent.
Cultural activities enhance discourse, provide venues for
educating through creative processes, and culminate in the annual
fall festival. |
Around the
Coyote |
| An e-zine from Vallejo, California, which features a Poem of
the Day as well as an Audio Poem of the Day. There’s also an
exclusive Click-on-Tarot shockwave game. |
Planet
AUTHORity |
| Martha Cinader's site featuring literary work is a member of
the e-poets network. It is also the home site for her book, When the
Body Calls. |
Cinasphere |
| The UK's SLAM! pioneers, the FARRAGO CLUB & SLAM! are
Europe's longest running poetry slam club, since 1994, with
regular shows at the Tabernacle, one of London's leading Arts
Centres and theatre venues. |
Farrago
Poetry |
| Rhizome is an online community space for people who are
interested in new media art. Rhizome's activities focus on:
presenting artworks by new media artists, critics and curators;
fostering critical dialog; and preserving new media art for the
future. |
Rhizome.org |
| The Yes Men are a genderless, loose-knit association of some
three hundred impostors worldwide. These artist-activists have
impersonated as WTO officials, getting loud applause from
delegates who thought they were serious in discussing slavery
rights, and proposing solutions to ensure that no “Gandhi-type
situation” occurs again. |
the Yes
Men |
| Low-Fi is a dynamic database of current and past net art
projects with an additional curatorial layer of selected lists.
Artists are able to create links to their projects, sites, and
netcasts, making it a useful tool for disseminating information
about net based activities. |
Low-Fi net arts
projects |
| The mission of the Electronic Literature Organization is to
promote and facilitate the writing and reading of electronic
literature, with the ultimate goal of an expanded readership of
literature written for electronic media. Electronic Literature
Organization programs support new forms of literature which
utilize the capabilities of emerging technologies to advance and
extend literature for the benefit of current and future
generations of readers. |
Electronic
Literature Organization |
| Creative Capital Foundation is a national (U.S.) nonprofit
organization that supports artists pursuing innovative approaches
to form and content in the media, performing, and visual arts, and
in emerging fields. Creative Capital supports work with the
potential for significant artistic and cultural impact. In
particular, they look for artists who are articulate about their
work and who have an understanding of the professional landscape.
We have a special interest in projects that transcend discipline
boundaries, and we will consider projects at any stage of
development. |
Creative
Capital |
| Poetry Slam, Inc. is the official non-profit organization
charged with overseeing the international coalition of poetry
slams. Though slams are maintained in a growing number of cities
by local volunteer organizers, the vast majority of slam series
follow the rules established by the governing body, and are
certified by the governing body as slams that adhere to the vision
slam's founders established for the art form over a decade ago.
Because of slam's exponential growth as an art form, PSI has
emerged not only as an administrative body to maintain the rules
which govern slam, but as an organization that seeks to grow
slam's audience and protect slam's interests. |
Poetry Slam
Inc. |
| Geist magazine is a quarterly featuring the best in Canadian
fiction, non-fiction, photography, comix, little-known facts of
interest, and so on. Geist is the home of the Honorary Canadian
Awards, the Distance Writing Contest, the Cross-Canada Phrasebook,
the Menstrual Map of Canada, and other cultural phenomena. |
Geist
Magazine |
| A not-for-profit society dedicated to the understanding of
film and moving images. Browse the site to find out about ongoing
public programs such as regular screenings at their downtown
theatre, educational resources like the film studies library, as
well as outreach projects delivering the best in local, national,
and international film and video throughout British Columbia.
Through screenings, film tours, educational services, and
film-related resources, the Pacific Cinémathèque fosters critical
media literacy and advances cinema as an art and as a vital means
of communication in British Columbia and Canada. |
Pacific
Cinémathèque |
| Vancouver Co-operative Radio is operated by more than 300
volunteers and is non-commercial radio that is financially
supported by its listeners. Co-op Radio offers 89 different
programs primarily in English, but including ten other languages.
The signal is available via FM mono broadcast and cable radio
transmission to the people of BC and northern Washington state.
Co-op Radio was set up in 1974 to increase community participation
in and encourage examination of the social and political concerns
of the geographic and cultural communities of BC. Our first
official broadcast was on April 14, 1975. |
Vancouver
Co-operative Radio |
| Mannafest was established by Khefri 'KA'frique' Riley and
Vanessa Richards in 1995. Its multi-medium productions continue to
set standards for innovative contemporary arts. Melting musical,
lyrical and visual symbology with a keen sense of purpose their
‘cultural properties’ are propelled into film, new media, theatre,
and publications. |
Mannafest |
| Wayde Compton's first book 49th Parallel Psalm (Advance
Editions, 1999), a history-in-verse of the black presence in
British Columbia, was nominated for the 2000 Dorothy Livesay B.C.
Book Prize. His writing has appeared in several journals and
anthologies including Poetry Nation (Vehicule Press, 1998) and
Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
(John Wiley and Sons, 2000). He is currently editing Bluesprint:
An Anthology of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature and
working on a 'turntable poem' for DJs titled The Reinventing
Wheel. A novel about telepathy and mixed-race is also in the
works. He lives in Vancouver. |
Wayde
Compton |
| Quarry West was founded by Raymond Carver, who taught at
Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1971. The
first few issues were called Quarry; then it was discovered that
there was already a Canadian literary journal of that name– hence
Quarry West. Now on an annual publication schedule, Quarry West is
a nationally distributed magazine devoted to printing the finest
poetry, poetry in translation, fiction, art, essays and reviews
available, with a particular emphasis on encouraging quality new
voices alongside the best new works of more established
writers. |
Quarry
West |
| Room of One's Own magazine is a collection of short stories,
poems, art and reviews by, for and about women. One of Canada's
oldest literary magazines, it has been a forum in which, for more
than 20 years, women have been sharing their unique perspectives
on the world, each other, and themselves. |
Room
of One's Own |
| The New Quarterly presents itself as following “new directions
in Canadian writing.” It is published from the University of
Waterloo, Ontario. |
The New
Quarterly |
| For forty years, Canadian Literature has explored and
celebrated the best Canadian writers and writing. Each issue
contains articles on writers and books– with some issues devoted
entirely to special topics– together with new poems and an
extensive section reviewing recent and current books. |
Canadian
Literature |
| Canada's longest living literary journal, The Fiddlehead is
published four times a year at the University of New Brunswick.
First published in 1945, The Fiddlehead is known as a Who's Who in
Can-Lit. The Fiddlehead sponsors an annual writing contest and
awards two prizes of $1,000 each. |
The
Fiddlehead |
| Cyberculture is taught online from the University of
Newcastle, Australia. The web site contains links to recommended
readings, and to relevant web sites; and outlines questions for
discussion in the online tutorials; and self-correcting quizzes to
monitor your progress. |
Cyberculture |
| Grain Magazine is an internationally acclaimed literary
journal, publishing the freshest poetry and prose from Canada, the
US, and abroad. |
Grain
Magazine |
| Based in Toronto, Canada, the Harbourfront Reading Series
hosts weekly readings, and the annual International Festival of
Authors. |
the electronic
salon |
| If's mandate is to create innovative artistic content
delivered through the web, multimedia CD-ROM, live events, and
audio CDs. These will incorporate text, spoken word, visual art,
music and sound, hypertext, and other media; and to work with
professional writers, poets, and other spoken word artists to
develop extended forms of literary expression in the new media. |
If
Media Arts |
| The Malahat Review espouses no particular ideology or
aesthetic. They try to achieve a balance of views and styles in
each issue. They strive for a mix of the best writing by both
established and new writers. Malahat publishes fiction and poetry
and includes reviews of Canadian writing in each issue. They are
open to dramatic works, so long as they lend themselves to the
page; they welcome literary works that defy easy generic
categorization. |
Malahat
Review |
| Established in 1959 by a group of Vancouver writers, PRISM
international is the oldest literary magazine in Western Canada.
We publish short fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction and
translation by both new and established writers from around the
world. Our only criteria are originality and quality. |
PRISM
International |
| Founded in 1969, The Saskatchewan Writers Guild is a
province-wide organization representing writers in all disciplines
and at all levels of development. It is one of the largest
writers' organizations in Canada, with membership of over 700. The
Guild's mission is to improve the status of the writer in
Saskatchewan. |
Saskatchewan
Writers Guild |
| Since the early 70s, Seagull has been supporting, nurturing
and disseminating creative and critical activity in the arts in
India, in the belief that the arts are everybody's
responsibility. |
Seagull |
| from the site: We wanted a celebration of poetry and
story telling. We wanted to be lost for an evening on a midway of
voice. Voice like caramel, sticking to our fingers. Voice of
adrenaline, of inspiration. Exhilarating, head spinning. We wanted
carnival. And where could our Toronto raised image of carnival
dance with those raised in Trinidad, New Orleans or Markinch,
Saskatchewan? Scream In High Park became an eclectic meeting of
background, viewpoint, and writing style. A momentary blending of
voices forming a single, unrepeatable expression of the possible.
The carny wasn't asking us to buy, just to come in and
discover... |
Scream in High
Park |
| An annual festival that features writers from around the
world. Join us on Granville Island featuring over 90 authors. Over
11,000 readers gather for five days of readings, discussions, and
book signings each October. The festival encourages an
appreciation of the written word and promotes literacy by
providing a forum where readers and writers of all ages can
interact. |
Vancouver
International Writers (& Readers)
Festival | |
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