Comments on: In Praise of Online Journals

By: Leland Jamieson

Leland Jamieson — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:11:00 +0000

If it hasn't been mentioned already, http://www.duotrope.com/index.aspx maintains a continuously updated directory of online journals and 'zines you may wish to utilize. It is more convenient than most because it has a screening and sorting utility that makes the search efficient with your time.

By: Alicia (A.E.)

Alicia (A.E.) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:42:24 +0000

An article from Slate on the death of e-mail...

By: Simmons Buntin

Simmons Buntin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:12:30 +0000

Another to add to the list: Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, which publishes two theme-based issues per year and receives somewhere over 100,000 visits per issue. We're celebrating 10 years online with a reading in New York City on January 31 at Cornelia Street Cafe. If you're in town (and I guess half the writing world will be, what with AWP), consider joining us!

By: Robert Schwab

Robert Schwab — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:52:38 +0000

also The Wazee Journal, out of Denver, at http://www.wazeejournal.org

By: Halvard Johnson

Halvard Johnson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:55:11 +0000

Here are a couple you might want to add: Hamilton Stone Review (I edit the poetry for this one, which is just about to put online its 13th issue; it does three a year). You can find it at http://www.hamiltonstone.org.
Another is Salt River Review, the editor of which is James Cervantes. It’s found at http://www.poetserv.org/,
Thanks for asking.
Halvard Johnson
halvard@earthlink.net
halvard@gmail.com

By: Mike Young

Mike Young — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:28:17 +0000

Here are some more online poetry journals--new, old, small, big, and elsewise--not listed in the PF links page: Realpoetik NOÖ Journal Notnostrums Juked elimae Idiolexicon

By: Don Share

Don Share — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:14:43 +0000

I’d be sorry to see books getting replaced by electrons, because as physical artifacts they tend to stick around against the odds. Most copies of Pound’s Active Anthology were destroyed in wartime bombing – yet you can still find one online in a matter of minutes. Which illustrates how both the internet and books can, and will, continue to coexist. The examples of Stevens’ Harmonium, just about all of Niedecker’s books, and Bunting’s – just to name some poets discussed here in the recent past – were not “needed” until decades after they were printed; if the internet facilitates their being read now, the fact is that those long-unwanted books survived into the electronic age, We need, in other words, to print more than just what is wanted. Use of electricity is arguablly just as ungreen as cutting down trees, too! Seriously, from Gutenberg on, books have survived not just as texts, but as real objects taking their place somehow and miraculously in the world. I hope that continues as long as writing does.

By: Crafty Green Poet

Crafty Green Poet — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:12:58 +0000

I think its great to see lots of online journals, though would be sad to see the total demise of paper journals. I edit an online journal in blog format: http://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com.
I’ll come back later and follow the links you already have to other online journals.

By: Didi

Didi — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:17:32 +0000

Hi – I am just responding to a comment above that mentions that the internet will never replace books. I believe this statement is not true. The internet has already started replacing books. The surge of new writers of poetry is due to the internet. More readers of poetry are learning about these writers because of the internet. And perhaps the internet will not replace books in the lifetime of the person who wrote such nonsense above but I do hope that I see the internet replace many books and trees before I die. I hope to see more and more people take advantage of IPODS and SONY READERS and downloading their poetry and novels to these as they become more accessible and easier to use with a wider range of books to download to. Also we need to take a look at the opposite side of the coin because of the internet more books are being printed. Hence PRINT ON DEMAND. Which facilitates the need to have printed what is wanted and presses do not have to have books sitting on shelves that will never be purchased.
Anyway- I could go on and on but I will not. I have an online magazine that is waiting for me and kids upstairs still sleeping this Sunday morning. Off to make myself some Bustelo.
Didi Menendez
MiPOesias Magazine
http://www.mipoesias.com

By: bill knott

bill knott — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:32:32 +0000

a couple years ago i discovered there were 3 or 4 plagiarist sites each with about 50 of my poems posted, without my permission or input . . . this was so irritating and irremediable that i started my own blog in order to plagiarize myself . . . my copyright’s defunct if any online venue can reprint my work without my sayso . . . if writers have no control over the reproduction of their work, what then . . .
there’s also the question of worth, the paradox of value: if my books can be downloaded free from my
blog (and they can), if all the poems I’ve written over the past four and a half decades can be read on the screen at my blog (and they can), if i present my work there for open perusal and propagation, doesn’t that diminish it? nothing is got for nothing, to quote Stevens . . . if one wants to read Jennifer Moxley’s poems, one has to pay money for her printbooks. . . . ergo? as for online poetry and the flood of blogbards doesn’t Gresham’s Law promise my bad will drive out your good . . .