We've put these External Links here as pathways to more poetry and metaphor online, rich resources in many languages. We welcome your contributions to this collection of links, so others might enjoy and use the poetry you have found.
Poetry Slams on the Net
"What's a Poetry Slam? Fearless poets getting up there and competing for money! And YOU the AUDIENCE decide the winner!"
(from the Home Page of the 1995 US National Poetry Slam)"Simply put, Slam is the rock and roll of poetry."
(from Mychele's Poetry Slams)
- Slam News
- An incomplete history of Slam Poetry, or Chicago's general take on things...
- TelePoetics
- t@p Poetry Slam
- Mychele's Poetry Slams
- Charlie's Internet Poetry Slam
- Matt Sanner's Poetry Slam
(Mario:) ". . . Do you think the whole world is a metaphor for something?"
Neruda's mouth gaped and his robust chin seemed ready to drop right off his face.
"Did I ask a stupid question?"
"No, my friend, no."---Mario and Pablo Neruda in the book The Postman by Antonio Skármeta
- Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online
- Conceptual Metaphor Home Page
- Metaphor, Prism of Thought
- Metafor (Lyon/MIT)
A two-site installation (in France and USA) about "language barriers, machine translation and communication between people in the world deeply transformed by the digital technology."
- PROGETTO CD-ROMA
"Mostrare la possibilità di muoversi tra dati ipermediali attraverso una rappresentazione spaziale capace di contenere metafore e suggestioni..."
- Laborintus di Edoardo Sanguineti
"..l'opera inattuale di un isolato che riprende il discorso interrotto delle avanguardie storiche, convinto che solo nel linguaggio disarticolato e informale dell'avanguardia risieda la verità occulta dell'arte nell'età dell'industria culturale e della mercificazione totale."
"You invented a metaphor."
"But it doesn't count, 'cause it just came out by accident."
"All images are accidents, my son."---Pablo Neruda and Mario in the book The Postman by Antonio Skármeta
- Electronic Poetry Center at the University of Buffalo
- Yahoo: The Poetry Section
- April 1996: First Annual National Poetry Month
- The Academy of American Poets
- Aloud! Voices From the Nuyorican Poets' Café
- British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
"There once was a poet named Dante who fell in love with a woman named Beatriz. It seems that Beatrizes provoke incommensurable loves."
---Pablo Neruda in the book The Postman by Antonio Skármeta
- Machina Amniotica: Ipertesto Poetico Quadridimensionale
- Galleria di "VersiControVersi"
"In questo "spazio virtuale" vogliamo aprire un'area dedicata alla poesia inedita per gli autori locali (ma non solo). L'obiettivo inseguito è dar voce agli autori destinati al silenzio, da un'editoria che raramente investe negli sconosciuti."
- Cafe Poetel
Incontri telematici di Poesia (Poetry get-together on the Net)
"Non poesia per la Telematica, ma telematica per la Poesia ... poesie collettive..."
- Poesia (DADA Net)
Hotlist of poetry sites
- Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
An exhibition
- Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana
An Anthology of Italian Literature - Fragments
- Café Gabriel
- Pablo Neruda, Poeta Chileno
- Café Gabriel