Tortured Poets

Dark love poems that twist the heart

Liana Hemmett's website

Features Liana's well-carved poems that leave a mark

The Leonard Cohen Files

Information packed site featuring the works of singer, poet and novelist, Leonard Cohen who has often explored dark love and the more obscure regions of the heart

The Poetry of Sylvia Plath

Lots of links to the dark poetry of Sylvia Plath

Paul Celan Homepage

Lots of information on one of the major post-war European poets whose anguished poetry touches the soul

Charles Baudelaire

A brief biography and analysis of Les Fleurs du Mal and his Prose poems

The New Criterion

A monthy review of arts and intellectual life that is fresh, incisive, and above all, justly intolerant of artistic mediocrity and intellectual conceit

Jason's Poetry Corner

A well thought out site where poetry is made accessible to everyone, with great links to light and dark poetry

Bryant McGill

A poet who explores and embraces the mysteries of life and seeks to build bridges to greater understanding and empathy

The Starlite Cafe

A nicely designed site for poets and poetry lovers, with discussion groups, chat, resources, and sharing of poetic ideas. Poets can submit their works

Patrick Martin's Poetry Resource

This site offers a wealth of poetry-related resources

poetrymachine.com

Offers resources for publishing your poetry or other literary works. You will also find writing tools and links to poetry contests, and yes, some of David Clink's own poetry

Poetry Super Highway

You can submit your poems, find links to online poetry publications and personal poetry websites, discuss poetry in the forum and chat room, and more

Poetic Voices

An intelligent online magazine that promotes poets and poetry. The site offers resources, interviews with poets, reviews, and poems from its readers

A Little Poetry

A user friendly, elegantly designed site, featuring quality poetry. Submissions are welcome, and for a nominal fee they will set up a poetry page for you

Jeff Walt

Features the poetry of Jeff Walt, as well as links to interviews with poets, literary magazines and other websites of poets

Poetry Pipeline

Features the works of various poets

Everypoet.com

Links to personal poetry pages and poetry magazines, dictionaries and other resources, an archive of the poetry of well-known poets, and a forum to submit poems and discuss poetry related issues

Arcanum Cafe

This site has a very active forum with various discussion categories, including poetry writing exercises, dark love poetry, and Haiku, Tanka and Senryu forms. Accepts submissions

Nectarzine

An ezine offering poetry, music and artwork, elegantly interwoven

Boston Review

A magazine of political, cultural and literary ideas, offering poetry, fiction, reviews, and examining issues of topical interest, with an extensive archive section of previous published articles and a link to other quality literary sites

Low Probability of Racoons

Peter Howard's well-designed, imaginative poetry site featuring his wit, animated poems, and links to quality poetry sites

PoetryRepairShop

John Horvath Jr.'s award-winning online poetry magazine dedicated to the promotion of new, emerging and established writers, and also featuring John's own widely published poetry

Modern American Poetry

A huge amount of information on poets and their poetry

Bright Lights Film Journal

A nice capsule comment on Bob Dylan's "Don't Look Back"

The Van Morrison Website

All about Van Morrison and "Astral Weeks"

MustHear.com

A compilation of musical gems including Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks"

Poems That Go

Get a taste of multimedia poetry

The Scriberazone

A sampling of thought-provoking, soulful poems by various artists; submissions are welcome

Poetry Magazine

A huge selection of poems by both well-known and unpublished poets

Moongate Internationale

A disabilities accessible poetry magazine featuring poets from around the world

The Poetry Center at Smith College

A sampling of the works of well-established poets

Poets.org

Information packed website of The Academy of American Poets offers essays, biographies and poems

Canadian Poetry Archive

The works of early English and French language Canadian poets

Contemporary Canadian Poetry

The University of Toronto English Library offers a huge amount of information about contemporary Canadian poetry--an excellent resource

The Fiddlehead

Canada's longest living literary magazine, publishes poetry, short stories and book reviews

Grain Magazine

Grain publishes the works of emerging and established writers in Canada and around the world

Poetry

Regarded by many as the premier poetry journal, it has published the works of major American poets

Poets Against the War

A new website accepting submissions from poets opposed to a war on Iraq

Graham's Poetry Library

David Graham's site offers a range of poetry resources, including links to American poets, writing tools, informative essays about poetry, and his own poetry

Dana Gioia Online

Poet, essayist and critic, Dana Gioia, presents his own poetry, as well as informative essays and reviews of poetry

Jacket

Jacket magazine is an online literary magazine which reviews new writing, offers an extensive listing of book reviews, and features poetry, creative prose, and interviews

Contemporary Poetry Review

This monthly online literary journal is devoted exclusively to poetry criticism, presented without an excess of academic jargon

The Atlantic Online

An intelligent magazine taking the pulse of American life, with articles spanning a range of interests from politics to literature, and includes a forum, and a large poetry section featuring poems, essays on literature, and interviews with poets

Modern American Poetry Site

This University of Illinois website is an online journal offering in-depth criticisms and analyses of the writings of 161 poets, as well as biographies and related links

DayPoems

Offers daily poems and an extensive list of poets and their poetry spanning seven centuries

Web del sol

A feature rich website devoted to the promotion of literary art and culture, offering information on writing programs, samplings from chapbooks, daily poetry, literary critiques, and discriminating reviews of print and web publications