“Contemporary Poetry Review: Resuscitating Poetry Criticism… An online journal devoted exclusively to poetry criticism.”

“From its inception, its mandate has been to provide the general reader with a guide to contemporary poetry, and to serve as an organ of intelligent criticism. To do so, the Contemporary Poetry Review has attempted to encourage criticism that is clear, spacious, and free of academic jargon and politics.”

With a subscription you will have access to the complete CPR archive purported to be “the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the world.”

Arlington, Virginia,  United States
http://webdelsol.com/CPR/

e-poets.network — “where spoken word lives on the web”

New media features include the Incomplete History of Slam, the e-poets library, the Book of Voices, and Videotheque.

Chicago, Illinois,  United States
http://e-poets.net/

“Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity.” Eclipse is edited by Craig Dworkin.

Department of English, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah,  United States
http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/

“The EPC was founded in 1995 and serves as a central gateway to resources in electronic poetry and poetics at the University at Buffalo, the University of Pennsylvania’s PennSound, UBU web, and on the Web at large. Our aim is simple: to make available a wide range of resources centered on digital and contemporary formally innovative poetries, new media writing, and literary programming.”

State University of New York, Buffalo, New York,  United States
http://epc.buffalo.edu/

“Thirteen numbers and three supplements published between February 1978 and October 1981.”

Online archives hosted on the English Departemnt of the University of Utah’s “Eclipse” site.

archived at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah,  United States
http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/LANGUAGE/language.html

“The archive contains several hundred hours of programs; many are once-in-a-lifetime events featuring a wide-ranging group of writers, poets, social and cultural activists and thinkers.”

Santa Fe, New Mexico,  United States
http://www.lannan.org/lf/audio/lannan-archives/

“Lannan Foundation established its Literary Program in 1987 to support the creation of exceptional poetry and prose written originally in the English language, and to increase the audience for contemporary literature.” See also the Lannan Audio Archives

Santa Fe, New Mexico,  United States
http://www.lannan.org/lf/programs/lit/

“MAPS is a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern American poetry.”

University of Illinois,  United States
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/

“The Naropa University Archives continues work on its nationally recognized Writing and Poetics Collections. Digital reformatting and access activities continue on the Audio Collection, called ‘one of the three most important literary audio collections in America’ by the New York Times. Work is also progressing to expand the archival programs to include film and photo collections…. Archives staff have currently digitized two thousand hours of audio recordings from activities at the Kerouac School.”

See Internet Archive

Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado,  United States
http://www.naropa.edu/archive/index.cfm

from press release January 1, 2005: “PennSound: All the Free Poetry You Care to Download…. PennSound, launched Jan. 1, is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems — currently 1,500 and fast growing — mostly as song-length singles.”

The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylva,  United States
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

“Poetry Daily is an anthology of contemporary poetry which each day brings you a new poem from books, magazines and journals currently in print.”

Charlottesville, Virginia,  United States
http://www.poems.com/

“How can organizations located on the periphery of major international art cities contribute to the cultural and intellectual landscape? What can a young organization that resists the market-driven orientation of today’s cultural institutions achieve with minimal private funding, no public funding, and an all-volunteer staff?”

“Slought Foundation (‘Sl-aw-t’) has continually returned to these questions since opening in Philadelphia in 2002 through a series of public programs featuring international artists and theorists…. Through over 200 exhibitions, events and performances, trade publications, and a significant internet presence featuring hundreds of recordings, Slought Foundation has been at the forefront of interventionist approaches to cultural production in North America.”

Research Institute showcases the Fred Wah Poetry Recordings (MP4) from the July-August 1963 Poetry Conference in Vancouver and the Social Mark: Poetry Readings and Talks/Discussions from 2003, among its 224 hours plus of recorded audio.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  United States
http://www.slought.org/

“An innovative series of poetry readings in which three or four contemporary poets are invited to record a reading of the same classic poem.” Requires subscription.

United States
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/soundings/

“Rexroth, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti… coffee shops, jazz clubs and cabarets. The Beat movement that originated in the 1950’s is still alive today. This page is a tribute to those literary pioneers that defined a new generation of free thinkers.” Kenneth Rumsey is the founder, developer, webmaster and graphics guy for The Beat Page.

United States
http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/index.html