Ezra Pound wrote to William Carlos Williams in 1909:
Lect. I. Learn your art thoroughly. If you’ll study the people in that first lecture and then reread your stuff– you’ll get a lot more ideas about it than you will from any external critique I can make of the verse you have sent me.
Vale et me ama!
P.S. And remember a man’s real work is what he is going to do, not what is behind him. Avanti e coraggio!
Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941. p 8.
The poems in the summer issue of Eudaimonia, with their themes of broken boundaries and transgressed horizons, inspire me to think about expanding my horizons as a reader. There are many excellent resources for finding new poetry and new publications on the internet, and epoetryreview.com has linked to Newpages.com, ConstantCritic.com, and PoetryDaily.org since its inception. But where do you go to discover new voices? Which blogs and websites excite you? Enrage you? Where is the pulse of poetry on the net today?
For the inaugural thread of our blog, I’d like to open up for comments about poetry on the web. What are our best and worst resources, and are poets making the best use of the internet? What’s your homepage for new poetry?
Update: This morning I came across Spencer Selby’s List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines in one of Lyn Hejinian’s footnotes in Best New American Poetry 2004. I’ll continue posting links to broad resources like this one as I find them.
