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A Collection of Links That Are Of Interest To Myself

 

Poems

 

Poetry.com- Organization encouraging contemporary poets sponsored by the National Library of Poetry. Awards 250 total prizes to new and unpublished poets.

 

Poems.com- Poetry Daily, the online web anthology and bookstore. A new poem every day, along with poetry news, archives, and more.

 

Lovepoems.com- Classic, featured and submitted love poetry.

 

Pete’s Best Loved Poems- A collection of poems, poetry, rhymes and verse with all poetry, poems and authors indexed alphabetically.

 

 

Haiku

 

Haiku of Kobayashi Issa- A collection of haiku by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, in romanized Japanese and with fine translations by David Lanoue.

 

Mainichi Interactive - Haiku in English- Web site of the famous Mainichi Daily News Haiku in English column, edited by Kazuo Sato and Isamu Hashimoto. Has instructions for e-mail entries.

 

Bad Haiku- "Horrible Poetry for the Digital Age." Surfers are encouraged to submit their atrocities for publication on the web.

 

Haiku Links- One of the most comprehensive collections of links to haiku and related materials on the WWW. Extremely well categorized, easy to use. Well maintained by Mark Alan Osterhaus.

 

Reflections - A Haiku Diary- An irregular e-zine of world haiku in English including a wide range of poets. Very nicely produced by Harsangeet K. Bhullar.

 

 

Short Stories

 

Themestream: Writing Short Stories- Collection of short stories by various authors, categorized by genre.

 

short-stories.co.uk- Large online library of short stories with monthly features and additions. Classics and new writing includes summaries, biographies and analysis. User-friendly layout, fully searchable.

 

Classic Horror Short Stories- Good collection of online texts of classic horror short stories. Authors include Wilkie Collins, John Polidori, Bram Stoker, and Algernon Blackwood.

 

Slowly Downward- This site contains short prose in surreal, irreal and stream of consciousness style, as well as a quiz that spent time in an art museum.

 

 

News Sites

 

*They are pretty much all the same

 

CNN.com

 

BBC.co.uk

 

MSNBC.com

 

CNBC.com

 

 

Music Sites

 

Rollingstone.com- Best one out there.  Lots of articles.

 

BBC.co.uk- Very good site if you like Britpop

 

Sonicnet.com- Great for web radio.

 

MTV.com- I hate MTV but you might enjoy this teenybopper-crazed site.

 

VH1.com- Ditto.

 

MTV2.com- Better if you have the channel.

 

NME.com- Great for news on most genres of music.

 

 

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