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A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Poetry
Facing texts of Russian originals and English translations of 250 poems. Including 75+ previously unavailable archival recordings of poetry performed by Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak and others. Great!
Academy of American Poets (poets.org)
The Academy keeps a complete archive of its live poetry readings and other events, dating back to 1963. Available on CD but a lot of poems can be listened to on their site.
Antología de poesía hispanoamericana
Huge poetry archive in Spanish language also with audio & video files
Archive of the Now
digital collection of poets performing their own work. Based at Queen Mary University of London, it hosts many specially commissioned recordings unavailable anywhere else
born magazine
Born Magazine is a quarterly publication that brings together creative writers and interactive artists to create experimental, media-rich literary arts experienced only through the Web.
Cross-Cultural Poetics
More than 100 poetry talks with international writers and poets. Available as mp3 radio shows hosted by Leonard Schwartz.
Dichterlesen.net
Portal zum Anhören von literarischen Veranstaltungsmitschnitten aus einem halben Jahrhundert (German)
Griffin Poetry Prize Readings
See and Hear Poetry from the Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlists and Winners with e.g. Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Paul Muldoon, Gerald Stern and Karen Solie.
Huellkurven
Huellkurven is an online sound poetry magazine and a series of events dedicated to sound poetry, poésie sonore, lautpoesie, noise poetry, sound-text composition, auditive poesie, audio poetry etc.
iamb - poetry seen and heard
established and establishing UK-poets showcases both their writing and their readings.
Library of Congress > Audio Recordings
Many recordings with poets reading their poetry (English)
Lunar Poetry Podcasts
A series of discussions, interviews and live recordings with poets in the UK and beyond.
Listen to Lunar Poetry Podcasts on SoundCloud:
The producers of Lunar Poetry Podcasts bring you also the podcast: a poem a week
Lyrikkritikakademie
Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer widmen sich über zwei Jahre hinweg der Lyrikkritik. Ergebnisse, Konzepte, Grundlagentexte und Pecha Kuchas der im Herbst 2018 gegründeten Akademie zur Lyrikkritik finden sich hier:
Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
Founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, the Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
PennSound
PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives. Amazing!
Phonodia
Phonodia collects and present recordings of poets’ voice reading their own composition. Phonodia aim to became an on-line archive for poetry and voice as well as a tool for literary research in this field.
Podpoesi (Swedish only)
Poesía en español
Spanish poetry, including many audio recordings, but unfortunately without any other information.
Poesia Revelada
The objective of this Lisbon based site is to show how much poetry is revealed when it marries with the voices of poets, images and music.
Poetry Center Digital Archive
early audio recordings from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives collection
Poetry Foundation (US)
Archive of audio features and previous podcasts featuring high-quality recordings of poems, interviews with poets, and documentaries - mostly US-American Poetry.
PoetryConnexion – Nordic Poetry & Poetry Stages
On this website you will find an archive of audio recordings of poetry readings and an overview of the Nordic poetry stages and literature festivals.
Spoken Word Archive
Spoken Word Archive is the history of Apples and Snakes, England’s leading organisation dealing specifically with performance poetry and spoken word
The Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress
digitizing some of their 2,000 recordings from the past 75 years of literature
The Poetry Archive (UK)
Many poets from the U.K., the U.S.A. and English speaking poets from the rest of the world; incl. historic recordings. Highly recommended!
UbuWeb
Visual + Concrete + Sound Poetry - A learned, varietous, and rewarding assortment of links and works.
Voces que dejan huellas
huge collection of sound recordings of the most important authors of the Spanish language, but also quite many international writers and poets from other languages. Including the original voices of forty-five Nobel Prize winners. RECOMMENDED.
Voices & Visions
a video series explores the lives and works of 13 of America's most famous modern poets.
Woodberry Poetry Room
a special collections reading room and audio archive at Harvard University. Encounter it virtually through the online Listening Booth.
BLOGS ON POETRY
The Page
This Blog aims to gather links to some of the Web's most interesting writing, poetry, essays, ideas.
DIGITALE POESIE
Electronic Literature Directory
In this huge archive of the Electronic Literature Organization you will find many many projects of all kinds of electronic literature listed and described. Highly recommended!
Electronic Poetry Center / E-Poetry
Electronic Poetry Center's extensive list of E-Poetry projects, sites and authors
p0es1s
p0es1s is a virtual place for multimedia/internet-poetry. With theoretical texts and an online exposition of digital poetry.
the electronic Writing Research ensemble
"the electronic Writing Research ensemble wishes to contribute to research on writing, and to writing as research" - features a wide range of digital poetry, the artworks being directly available at the site.
the Iowa review web
Online-journal for digital poetry. Interviews, Essays and (reviewed) interactive artworks ...
Vispo [Langu(im)age]
Provides a huge collection of various applications of digital literature, e.g. a literary shoot 'em up. Strangely interesting.
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Collection of text-based animations composed in Adobe Flash, synchronized to a musical score. Very intelligent and highly recommendable!
FESTIVALS & READINGS
Days of Poetry and Wine (Slovenia)
International festival of poetry and other artistic forms, from 1996 until 2009 in Medana, since 2010 in Ptuj.
European & Nordic Poetry Festival (UK)
European Poetry Festival
The EPF celebrates European poetry in the UK by bringing together poets from across the continent with poets living in the UK.
Festival International de la Poésie (Québec)
International Poetry Festival of Medellín
The Site of the greatest and most amazing poetry festival of the world.
Poetry Africa
International Poetry Festival features participants from South Africa and around the world. The Durban based week-long programme features performances, readings and an extensive schools programme.
Poetry International Rotterdam
website of the annual poetry festival with lots of information about international poets. From humble beginnings in 1970, the Poetry International Festival grew to become one of the leading poetry platforms in the world.
Unabhängige Lesereihen (Germany)
Network of stages and reading series in the German-speaking area.
Vilenica International Literary Festival (Slovenia)
A gathering of poets, prose writers, dramatists and essayists, annually in Lipica and at other venues in Slovenia.
INSTITUTIONS
Griffin Poetry Prize
The most important Poetry Prize in the English speaking part of Canada. [incl. a huge list with poetry related links]
Literature Across Frontiers (LAF)
Literature Across Frontiers (LAF), the European Platform for Literary Exchange, Translation and Policy Debate, established in 2001, aims to develop intercultural dialogue through literature and translation, and highlight less translated literatures.
Lyrik Kabinett (München)
Münchener Lesegesellschaft von Freunden und Liebhabern der Poesie mit hervorragendem Veranstaltungsprogramm, überwältigender Bibliothek sowie einer schönen Publikationsreihe. [de & en]
Netzwerk Lyrik [network poetry]
Association of poets, poetry translators, publicists, academics, institutions and independent organisers who have made it their task to promote and strengthen the art form of poetry in its many forms.
Poetry Society of America
The site of the nation's oldest poetry organization, founded in 1910. PSA presents online many poetry features and some recordings of their events as well.
Poetry Translation Centre
The Poetry Translation Centre was established in 2004 to translate contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America into English.
The Poetry Society
Since 1909, the Poetry Society is representing British poetry both nationally and internationally.
Wales Literature Exchange
Wales Literature Exchange is the translation junction connecting writers, translators and publishers in Wales and abroad.
INTERNATIONALE SEITEN & INSTITUTIONEN
Antikoerperchen - Lyrik-Datenbank
Interpretationen, Inhaltsangaben und Analysen zu Gedichten, Autoren und Epochen deutscher Poesie
arabic poetry
This multilingual web-site (five different languages) presents a journey into the Modern Arabic Poetry and was launched by the bahrainian poet Qasim Haddad.
Danish Poetry @ Forfatterstemmer.dk
Quite big collection, mostly Danish, some with audio files as well.
Das Projekt Gutenberg [German]
1994 als Freizeitprojekt begonnen, hat es sich zur größten Online-Literatursammlung deutscher Sprache entwickelt.
Electric Verses
Electric Verses presents a selection of modern Finnish poets, both Finnish and Swedish speaking. The site contains their poetry in the original and translations into other languages.
European Poetry Forum
17 questions on poetry answered by international poets. Organised by Ars Poetica (Slovakia)
eurozine
Fantastic multilingual cultural e-zine that links up and promotes over 100 cultural journals from all over Europe. The site includes also a lot of interesting material on poetry, like articles and reflections by poets, essays on poets or interviews with p
Gedichtesammlung für alle Tages- und Jahreszeiten
Thematisch geordnete Gedichte deutscher Dichter [Deutsch]
HunLit - Ungarische Literatur (Autoren-Werke)
Mehrsprachige Literaturdatenbank der Stiftung Ungarisches Buch
Jehat.com
One of the most important sites on the Internet devoted to Arabic and international poetry. Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Italian Navigation.
La Poéthèque
Huge bio-bibliographic database of French poets realised by Le Printemps des Poètes [French]
Life and Legends
Building bridges with poetry between languages and cultures - editions e.g. on comtemporary poetry from Nepal, India or the Arabic speaking world.
Lyrik der Gegenwart - Deutschsprachige Lyrik des 21. Jahrhunderts
allgemeine Informationen zur aktuellen deutschsprachigen Lyrikszene und zur Lyrikentwicklung seit 2000 - Überblick insbesondere auch für LehrerInnen, SchülerInnen und Studierende.
Lyrik.Log
Die wöchentliche satt.org-Gedichtanthologie. Herausgegeben von Ron Winkler (Weekly German poetry anthology)
lyrikkritik
kritiken – kreuzzüge – rezensionen - abschweifungen - annäherungen; Diskussionen von und mit und über junge Lyriker und Kritiker. [German]
Lyriktheorie
Eine lohnende wissenschaftliche Website zur Geschichte der Lyriktheorie mit umfangreicher Bibliographie zur Lyriktheorie, u.a. auch einige Autorenpoetiken der Gegenwart.
Lyrikzeitung und Poetry News
1000 Lyriknachrichten pro Jahr - alles, was man über die Rezeption aktueller Lyrik wissen muss - Lyrikpost bestellen als Newsletter
new zealand electronic poetry centre
nzepc is a project based at the University of Auckland to set up an electronic gateway to poetry resources in Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific region. Including a huge collection of audio and video files.
OULIPO
Die Seite der von George Perec gegründeten Dichtergruppe, der auch Oskar Pastior angehörte.
Passage & Co. / Nord-Süd-Passage
Passage & Co. organises French-German translation-workshops with writers and poets as well as summer classes on translation.
planet lyrik
Ein schier unglaubliches Archiv an Rezensionen, Kritiken und Pressestimmen tausender Gedichtbände, Anthologien und poetischer Zeitschriften. Im Grunde ein ganzes Planetensystem.
Poesiegalerie
Die seit dem Sommer 2020 auch online präsente Poesiegalerie versteht sich als Podium für die Präsentation der Vielfalt zeitgenössischer Lyrik in Österreich und als Forum für Information, Austausch und Vernetzung
poetenladen
Eine 2005 neu entstandene Website für junge deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur. Neben den Texten von bekannten und noch nicht so bekannten AutorInnen finden sich Essays, Kritiken, eine gute Linkssammlung. Ausserdem gibt es Wettbewerbe und ein lebendiges
Poetron-Zone
der deutschen Sprache und deutschsprachigen Lyrik gewidmet, inkl. Metricalizer (realisiert eine phonetische Silbenzerlegung), Poetron und Sloganizer (Gedicht & Slogan-Generator)
Poetry East West (China)
Poetry International Web
Poetry International Web is a worldwide forum for poetry on the internet! PIW will bring you news, reviews, essays, interviews and discussions, but first and foremost, hundreds of poems by acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the orig
poetry. (Singapore)
the first online venue that people think of when they think of Singapore Poetry - database of 50 poets, complete with critical introductions, biographies, bibliographies, selected poems, and accompanied by videos.
poets against war
Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Their collection was produced by hundreds of volunteers.
textlog
Umfangreiche Sammlung historischer Texte und Wörterbücher, inkl. einiger Poetiken [Deutsch]
Versopolis – where poetry lives!
An online platform for promotion of European poetry, emerging authors and renowned literary festivals, events and organisations.
World Haiku Association
LYRIKPREISE, WETTBEWERBE & AKTIVITÄTEN
Literarischer März Darmstadt
Lyrik-Wettbewerb um den Leonce-und-Lena-Preis. [Most important German Poetry Award for young writers]
Lyrik-Konferenz @ Poetenladen
Inspiriert vom Lyrik-Diskurs zw. Dieter M. Gräf und Alessandro De Francesco haben sich in der Folge einige weitere Dichter Gedanken über die post-poésie gemacht.
lyrix – Schülerwettbewerb für Dichter mit Klasse
Ziel des gemeinsam vom Deutschlandfunk, dem Philologenverband und dem Verlag Das Wunderhorn entwickelten Wettbewerbes ist es, Schülerinnen und Schüler spielerisch für Lyrik zu begeistern. Ab Januar 2009 beteiligt sich auch die Initiative "Schulen: Partner
TRANSLATORS
Babelwerk
Babelwerk is a platform for professional translators∙ and interested visitors∙. We approach the topic of translation both practically-artistically and academically. With Babelkat, we offer a practical, user-generated bibliography of translator knowledge.
TOLEDO
Das TOLEDO-Programm hat sich seit seinem Start 2018 als internationale Sparte und digitales Labor des Deutschen Übersetzerfonds etabliert. TOLEDO schafft einen Begegnungsort der deutschsprachigen und internationalen Übersetzerszenen und stärkt literarisch
Translators @ Flanders Literature
Translators from catalan
ZEITSCHRIFTEN & ONLINE MAGAZINE
Asymptote Journal
A fantastic site for world literature and poetry in translation.
incl. a daily-updated blog
Books from Finland
Books from Finland is a journal of writing from and about Finland. It is the only English-language literary journal in Finland. Today an Online Magazine, it appeared in print from 1967 until the end of 2008.
Das Gedicht
Der Online-Auftritt der Zeitschrift für Lyrik, Essay und Kritik bietet vor allem einen Überblick über die Inhalte der einzelnen Hefte. DAS GEDICHT bietet eine internationale Hintergrundberichterstattung rund um die zeitgenössische Poesie, Erstveröffentlic
Edit. Papier für neue Texte.
One of the most interesting magazines for young German literature.
HOW2
Internetzeitschrift, die sich besonders englischsprachiger experimnenteller Frauenlyrik widmet.
intendenzen - zeitschrift für literatur
Small, high quality magazine for young German literature. Main focus on poetry. Changing primary subject matters with every issue.
Jubilat
Founded in 2001, Jubilat delivers international contemporary poetry in english translations along with art, interviews and prose. Jubilat re-introduces also lost or neglected talent that may have been passed over by the standard canon or otherwise deserve
kolik - Zeitschrift für Literatur
Ausgezeichnete Literaturzeitschrift von und für Autoren, als Versuchsfläche für literarische Grundlagenforschung. Die Redaktion vergibt jährlich den KOLIK LITERATUR PREIS an junge, deutschsprachige Autorinnen und Autoren.
Literaturkritik
Die erste und einzige deutsche Onlinezeitschrift zur Literaturkritik und -wissenschaft. Neben Aufsätzen und Essays zu aktuellen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftlichen Themen, finden sich auf dieser Seite Rezensionen zu Neuerscheinungen aus dem Gebiet der
manuskripte - Zeitschrift für Literatur
Der Klassiker unter den Literaturzeitschriften im Netz, inkl. Leseproben und Cover-Archiv
Modern Poetry in Translation (mpt)
founded by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort in 1965, brings the best new poetry, essays and reviews from around the world to the reading public.
Poetry archive of the amazing 3:AM Magazine
incl. many interviews by SJ Fowler with international poets
Poetry International [US]
a world class literary magazine based on the campus of San Diego State University
In addition to the print journal, Poetry International also publishes PI Online, a blog which features many reviews, dispatches, interviews and poetry-related news.
POETRY Magazin
Since its founding in Chicago in 1912, Poetry has presented, often for the very first time, virtually every significant poet of the century. Now in its ninth decade of uninterrupted monthly publication the magazine remains the premier forum for contempora
Poetry Review [UK]
Poetry Review is the Poetry Society's internationally acclaimed quarterly poetry magazine
Schreibheft
Das Schreibheft ist ohne Zweifel eine der interessantesten deutschen Literaturzeitschriften.
Sinn und Form - Beiträge zur Literatur
Traditional magazine for German literature, founded in 1949. Presents poetry, prose, essays, interviews and more.
wespennest
Österreichs interessanteste Zeitschrift für brauchbare texte und bilder - mit Schwerpunktthemen von 'Jandl' bis 'Bürgerlichkeit', dazwischen 'Helter Skelter'(Austrian Cultural magazin)
Words Without Borders
The Online Magazine for International Literature presents in its various issues regularly poets as well