Resources for Students of All Ages
Getting to Know Electronic Literature
Electronic Literature Organization
The ELO “was founded in 1999 to foster and promote the reading, writing, teaching, and understanding of literature as it develops and persists in a changing digital environment. A 501c(3) non-profit organization, the ELO includes writers, artists, teachers, scholars, and developers.”
Electronic Literature Directory
An extensive database listing electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. Discussions of these works are actively ongoing.
Electronic Literature Collection
A freely accessible anthology of the diverse works of Electronic Literature. Released with Electronic Literature, by Kate Hayles
Electronic Literature: What Is it?
An online edition of the first chapter of Hayles’s Electronic Literature, a theoretically robust introduction to Electronic literary writing
This site is run by Loss Pequeno Glazier at SUNY Buffalo
This short article by Stephanie Strickland introduces readers to some of the premises, goals, and approaches to electronic poetry.
Finding Poetry and Related Resources Online
An outstanding repository of visual, concrete, auditory, and digital poetries. The scope of UBU Web is expanding radically, and it is a treasure trove of avant garde writing.
An audio and video archive of historic poetry readings as well as a resource for recent readings.
Poet Ron Silliman’s blog has become a clearinghouse for recent works as well as a site of active discussion of contemporary poetics. Silliman also has an exhaustive blogroll for poetry-related blogs.
This website provides a wide array of poems, information on poets, and commentary on poetry. For the history of the Poetry Foundation, check out this article from the New Yorker by Dana Goodyear.
Academic Writing
Purdue’s nationally known OWL answers almost any question you might have about academic writing.