EPC Links Visitors with Poetry and Poetics Resources

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The aim of the University at Buffalo's Web-based Electronic Poetry Center is to make a wide range of resources related to contemporary experimental and innovative poetries available to the public, says the center's director, librarian Loss Pequeño Glazier, himself a poet working in digital media.

EPC naturally contains a lot of writing, much of it in the center's searchable author libraries. Beyond that, however, the center links to a wide range of poetry and poetics resources.

These include poetry events, the electronic poetry journal RIF/T; the rich audio art of LINEbreak, which features readings and interviews with notable avant-garde literary artists; the online performance space "EPCLive," the full-text, electronic editions of "Biblioteca," and an archive, calendar, and files associated with the center's poetics discussion list and the widely renowned UB graduate program in poetics.

Readers also can browse through EPC's many featured libraries. They will find many digital resources in its author, small press, sound, and gallery areas, as well as references and links to related materials. Other EPC resources include the EPC Obits and collaboratively assembled poems, built by visitors to the EPC.

Lists of poetry magazines and book publishers are available, as are lists to related Internet poetry and poetics resources. If you are looking for a resource by name, the "All Links" list offers access through a single alphabetical list to all EPC links to presses, magazines, and organizations. Also available is an informal online directory of poets with whom readers can correspond.