Online magazine resource

Take a look at the Poetry Library on the South Bank in London. Well virtually.

Here you can find a useful list of online magazines that you may wish to send your work too.

Just a warning though...double check the magazines, read them, and their submission guidance before you send. That way you won't have a wasted journey. Even online magazines go bust sometimes.

The resource is here http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/magazines/onlinemagazines/

The tech empowered writer, Chicago, USA 1st March 2012

This talk is subtitled: embrace new media, experiment, and earn.

Good luck with that last part.

Anyway the blurb is as follows "What can a professor, a journalist, a novelist, and a poet teach you about new media? ...we’ll construct a composite of how working writers use technology to invest in their careers, experiment and launch new works, and grow their income opportunities."

It should be noted that they've "got a good-sized room (actually three rooms combined)" so you won't feel at all squashed while you are listening. This is not surprising as the event takes place at the Chicago Hilton Boulevard Room A, B, C 2nd Floor from 13.30 until 16.30 or you can always follow virtually on Twitter with the #awp12 hashtag 2/29-3/3. (That I like.)

It is part of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference but seems to be free. There may well be snacks but I can't guarantee that. Find out more here http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2012schedThurs.php or direct from Robert Lee Brewer who is on the panel http://robertleebrewer.blogspot.com/. There are a lot of literary events going on in Chicago http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2012offsite.php#.T03lR4dOj4s.



And thanks to Oula Lehtinen for the use of this photo.

Online poetry magazine Jacket is Jacket2

The online poetry magazine Jacket has a new home at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and is now reborn as Jacket2. Jacket itself was for many years one of the definitive online magazines. It was first published in 1997 by Australian poet and publisher John Tranter who continued as its editor throughout. At the time, Peter Forbes writing in the Guardian (UK) called it “the prince of online poetry magazines.” Its ethos, along with a small group of others, helped form a magazine web standard. The new issue was filled up bit by bit while past issues remained online. (Folks, this was new stuff back then). Most of the material was original to the magazine and commissioned, "but some .. excerpted [nice word] from or co-produced with hard-to-get books and magazines, partly to help them find new readers".

Still an interesting modus operandi I feel...

Jacket2 looks pretty good too and we hope it keeps something of its Australian sensibility, rigour and independence: try this on new Brazilian poets for example at http://jacket2.org/feature/new-brazilian-poets, 

Jacket2 is here: http://jacket2.org/.

More information on the archive can be found here: http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/online-poetry-magazine-jacket-has-new-home-penn-revamped-jacket2.

John Tranter's website is here: http://johntranter.com/00/index.html.

And finally that Peter Forbes' article from 2002 is still hanging around here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/jun/06/internet.poetry.