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	Poetry and Literature Links *Atlantic Unbound* Online version of the venerable and prestigious Atlantic Monthly Magazine, offering a generous selection of quality fiction, poetry, and articles of general interest. *Sonnet Central* Sonnets and more sonnets and other poetry too! This well-known site could take some sizeable chunks out of your life, if you like your poetry in fourteen-line increments. They have some really good links too. *The Literary Review* Online version of the well-known hard-copy magazine, it offers a fair quantity of good fiction and poetry by contemporary authors. *Poetry Magazine* A bit full of themselves, but when you've been around that long and published the people they've published, I suppose some bowing and scraping is in order. *Beloit Poetry Journal* Copious online offerings from past issues of the mag. Good poems, mostly free verse. *International Quarterly* Current issue of the magazine. Has first-rate poetry, fiction, and scholarly essays. Trying to read the materials on-site is a little tedious; they're in Acrobat format, so you have to have the reader and a lot of patience. Well worth the wait if you've got a loose schedule. They also have an art gallery. Click on links under "Table of Contents" in the upper left-hand corner. That's where they hide all the good stuff. *Ploughshares* Published by Emerson College, it claims to be widely regarded, all modesty aside, "as one of the best literary journals in the country." The fiction and poetry here is quite good, and there's lots of it. *Oyster Boy Review* Online version with back issues of the mag. Has fairly good fiction and poetry in decent quantity. *Alsop Review* Not published on a regular basis, the Review is strictly digital. Poetry and fiction in the current issue is really quite good. Submission is by invitation only. *Amethyst Review* A somewhat slim sampling of poetry and prose from the paper-based mag. Worth a look. *Boston Review* Excellent fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, reviews, contests, archives. This is the online incarnation of the hard-copy version and, unlike many paper-based publications, holds nothing back in the web version. *Cortland Review* Excellent collection of contemporary poetry, mostly free verse, lots of Real Audio, if you're in the mood for being read to. Also has some interesting interviews with poets. *Literal Latte* This digital rendition of the magazine is a bit stingy with actual material. There are some poems. The site is long on graphics and short on organization. One thing it has is a good set of links. Worth visiting. *About the Human Internet* A gargantuan site where you can link up with information on topics too varied to mention. Gets 500,000 hits per day, so you won't be alone there. Under Arts/Humanities you can find an extensive treasury of both contemporary poets and the well-known literary giants of the past. Moreover, there are essays, articles, reviews, and-- well, it's little bewildering. Give it a look for yourself, if you haven't already. *Hubris Magazine* Usually has ten or so pretty well-witten short stories, and an extensive collection of editorials. The site itself is worth a visit. Kind of on the margin visually. *Salon* News and non-fiction with a trendy edge and lots of barbs. *Potomac Review* Small cache of worthwhile poetry and short fiction. *North American Review* Quite a few poems and short stories as well as good links to other literary sites. *Exquisite Corpse* Firmly anchored in the realm of the relevant by editor Adrei Codrescu's wry, off-center, and always entertaining contributions, the Corpse tends toward the absurdist- surreal-iconoclastic-anarchistic extreme of the literary spectrum. More than tends, actually . . . *The Starlight Cafe* Extensive site with a large and varied collection of contemporary poetry categorized by mood, outlook, sentiment, and tending to rhyme. *The E-Zine List* Unfortunately this great list is no longer being maintained but still has useful links to some nice online entities with worthwhile collections. If you're looking for open submissions, there's a lot here. *Online Library of Literature* Actually has novels to read, and not by a bunch of insignificant hacks either. They range from Bronte to Crane to Tolstoy. *Electronic Text Center* Huge collection of English and world literature maintained by the Universtiy of Virginia, some of it public domain, much of it part of the holdings of the university. If you go in for older works there's enough here to keep you in reading material for the rest of your natural life and well into your supernatural life. There are collections of African-American writings, Civil War letters and works (11,000 articles from newspapers of the day), Shakespeare, and British poets. And this is not even scratching the surface. If you read foriegn languages they have material online, as well as some fabulous links. Also has Ebooks for the Microsoft Reader. *Mundo Latino* Great selection of Spanish-language literature and links to other sites and collections featuring both obras actuales and works by the greats of the past. It is not for nothing that the second half of the 20th Century has been refered to in Spanish letters as “The Boom”. This site is a portal to some of the best writing of this century. *William Blake* William Blake: A Helpfile Features writings and paintings of the great mystic and eternal Poet Laureate of Scotland. Still considered avant guard after two-and-a-half centuries. That's staying power. *Bartleby.com* Has a fairly vast collection of modern poetry and fiction accessible online. Another great place to idle away significant chunks of your life in the company of good literature. *Yeats: Last Poems* A handfull of Yeat's last poems. All brilliant, of course-- if you like Yeats. *Electronic Poetry Center* For those of you who dig moving, spinning, scrolling, leaping, blinking, and otherwise highly unstable reading matter, this is the place. *Drag and Drop Poetry* Fun little doo-dad where you move words around on a rectangle trying to make a poem, or a whatever. If you have a favorite literary site you’d like to share, drop a link into an e-mail and send it to us via: