Poetry circle and other online venues

[JimAuburn]

Is it just me, or do you find that it's really tough to find online venues for serious poets?

I recently found one site that looks promising:

http://www.poetrycircle.com

It's part poetry magazine, part forum, and has some well-known contributors -- including Lynn Lifshin, Richard Kostelanetz, and others -- mixed in with lesser-known names. An editorial staff keeps the inferior work from clogging up the board, and writers use real names, which I find refreshing in this age of people hiding behind "screen names."

But I find this kind of thing the exception and not the rule. Does anyone know of a list of good outlets online for serious writers of fiction or poetry? I'm not looking for the dross that you find on poetry.com and other horrible web sites.

 

[champagne1982]

Is it just me, or do you find that it's really tough to find online venues for serious poets?

I recently found one site that looks promising:

http://www.poetrycircle.com

It's part poetry magazine, part forum, and has some well-known contributors -- including Lynn Lifshin, Richard Kostelanetz, and others -- mixed in with lesser-known names. An editorial staff keeps the inferior work from clogging up the board, and writers use real names, which I find refreshing in this age of people hiding behind "screen names."

But I find this kind of thing the exception and not the rule. Does anyone know of a list of good outlets online for serious writers of fiction or poetry? I'm not looking for the dross that you find on poetry.com and other horrible web sites.

So why didn't you visit the links thread on the Poetry Feedback and Discussion forum? Heaven forbid you ask some of the poets there, I mean, it's a porn board ... how serious can the poetry be?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

So why didn't you visit the links thread on the Poetry Feedback and Discussion forum? Heaven forbid you ask some of the poets there, I mean, it's a porn board ... how serious can the poetry be?

Because this is SPAM.

 

[champagne1982]

Because this is SPAM.

I'd hesitate to delete the thread because of it, though. I mean, if someone can have a link to sex stories dot com in their thread title and not be accused of spamming...

I clicked and there were no mystery .exe's or popups flashing. Fairly benign spam in my book. Nor does it appear to be a pay site. Much like other member's web sites in their signatures.

Maybe someone in authority (like a moderator ) could pm this person and explain links in the signature use to him/her.

 

[cantdog]

Champagne --


But I do like porn boards. We are grounded. We have the tools always at hand to puncture pretension. Pretension is to poetry as dryrot is to wood.

 

[The_Fool]

Champagne --


But I do like porn boards. We are grounded. We have the tools always at hand to puncture pretension. Pretension is to poetry as dryrot is to wood.

There is a blurt in there someplace....

 

[cantdog]

I blurt only when intoxicated, Fool.

Oh.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'd hesitate to delete the thread because of it, though. I mean, if someone can have a link to sex stories dot com in their thread title and not be accused of spamming...

I know, me too. I didn't report it, even though other posts by the same poster refer to the same site, which he did not "find recently" but is in fact involved with.