Bookninja is an irreverent daily newslog covering book news from around the world and a book review site that conducts “reverse omnibus” reviews (ie, reviews where two to four reviewers examine one book.)

Canada
http://www.bookninja.com/

A forum of thoughts and rants on what canada is (or isn’t) from the inside and out. Social commentary, satire, and criticism present and welcome.

Canada
http://www.canadiancontent.ca/index.html

“It's Still Winter: A Web Journal Of Contemporary Canadian Poetry And Poetics is a joint undertaking of members of the English Departments of the College of New Caledonia and the University of Northern British Columbia, both located in Prince George B.C.”

Prince George,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://quarles.unbc.ca/winter/

“Latchkey.net is a Canadian e-zine created for writers, artists and spectators alike, acting as an online venue for the arts. Latchkey.net features one writer and one artist on a monthly basis.” Rocco de Giacomo is Editor-in-Chief.

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.latchkey.net/

“Leaf Press is an independent press located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Our mission is to publish beautifully designed poetry chapbooks from both new and experienced poets.”

Leaf Press also publishes poems online on Monday’s Poem page.

Lantzville,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.leafpress.ca/

“Mental Health Poetry through ‘Mind Your Words’ invites you to contribute to an exciting project that brings the art of mental health to life.”

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.mentalhealthpoetry.org

National Capital Letters, a web zine of the Ottawa Literary Heritage Society, provided “a venue for the recognition of Ottawa’s rich literary history and for the promotion of the current, vibrant scene. The documentation and assessment of the impact of literary happenings within the continuum of Ottawa’s literary activity remain fundamental to the purpose of the site. As such, we welcome submissions of articles, interviews, book reviews, literary manifestos, and any discourse on writers or literary events related to Ottawa.”

With the last of its issues ported in late 2004, the site appears dormant. Let’s hope for a revival.

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://capletters.ncf.ca/

“Where’s the news in what you write, what you read? The real news, as opposed to newspaper news, embodied, alive, particular and metonymically produced within the world of feeling — happening inside a particular person in a particular place – discovered at the time of writing, at the time of reading.”

Vancouver,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/quarterm/TheNews.htm

“Northern Poetry Review is an online home for poems, reviews of poetry books, articles and interviews, with emphasis on the Canadian poetry scene. We chose the NPR acronym despite that lovely institution, National Public Radio. The editors of the site, Alex Boyd and Dani Couture, will publish sample poems by selected poets, and hope to encourage accessible, honest and diplomatic reviews of books published across the country written by reviewers across the country.”

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.northernpoetryreview.com/

“Tthe main feature is our a-z author’s listing. With each writer there is be a listing of works by that writer, works on them, awards they’ve won, and annotated links to online resources for each author.”

Canada
http://www.track0.com/ogwc/index.html

“Founded to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the City of Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, ‘ottawater,’ and its chemical formula/logo ‘02(H20),’ is a poetry annual produced exclusively on-line, in both readable and printable pdf formats. An anthology focusing on Ottawa poets and poetics, its first issue appeared in January 2005, 150 years after old Bytown became the City of Ottawa.”

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.ottawater.com/

poetics.ca: is “an open site for dialogue on poetic theory and practice.” The editors write: “We value theory that is informed by practice, manifestos from the heart, in-depth conversation, and introductions to international writing. This site expresses not a single poetic, but the collective and frequently divergent poetics of its contributors and editors.”

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.poetics.ca

“PoetryReviews.ca is dedicated to reviewing poetry books/chapbooks by Canadian authors.”

Also has forums for reading events as well as new release and award announcements.

Canada
http://poetryreviews.ca/

“Poets Against War Canada seeks to engage poets and readers of all kinds in creating a unified public voice against war, tyranny and oppression.”

Post poems in English or French online and participate in online forum.

List to audio-file of interview between poets Jeffrey Mackie (100 Poets against War) and Sandra Stephenson (poetsagainstwar.ca).

Date: ongoing Peace Poetry Jams in various location in Canada and around the world
Canada
http://www.poetsagainstwar.ca/

“The Manitoba Writers’ Guild program Show Me the Poetry! aims to bring Manitoban poetry into the lives of high school students in a way that puts no pressure on them to respond. Students should be allowed/encouraged to read/listen to and appreciate a poem by a Manitoban poet every week, without worrying about having to discuss it, write about it, or be quizzed on it later in English Language Arts (or any other) class. (Of course, voluntary discussion of or response to any poem should not be discouraged.)”

Manitoba,  Canada
http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/poetry/home.html

“Mr. David Brydges, Cobalt native and poet, having become interested in the historical and literary significance of physician and nationally renowned poet, Dr. William Henry Drummond, a major figure in the early part of the century in Cobalt, Ontario, has spearheaded a unique cultural opportunity for the area.”

“The First Annual Spring Pulse Poetry Festival will be held in Cobalt April 3–6th, 2008.”

Deadline for Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest is March 15, 2008.

See poems of the week archive.

Date: Next Festival: April 3–6th, 2008
Cobalt,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.springpulsepoetryfestival.com/

“:: stonestone :: is an online journal interested in writing which explores the poetic apprehension of the material world, things, or objects, and/or the difficulty in acts of ‘translation’.”

“::stonezones:: a series of regionally-defined issues” (#1 Spring/Summer 2007—Calgary; #2 Fall/Winter 2007—Montreal; FMI )

Prince George,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://stonestone.unbc.ca/

“Twenty-first century literature since 1999.” TDR is an international online magazine of fiction, poetry, reviews, interviews, opinion and other important stuff. (The site has an extensive links page).

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.danforthreview.com/

“Treeline: Canadian Writing on the Net [sought] to promote all forms of Canadian literature and art. It [was] published electronically on a quarterly basis.” Edited by Mark Berge. See online archive for issues spanning 1995 to 1999.

Manitoba,  Canada
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/english/treeline/

“… The first issue of W [Fall 1999] so completely met our expectations that we really should have stopped. We still marvel when we look at its front cover, so wonderfully ugly, with all its errant letters, slop and tears, and its crumpled, cluttered back cover looking like a handbill for an eastside garage. How did we do it? The print issues, the first five, were less widely distributed than Spicer’s legendary J. Going digital was initially just the result of not having enough money to print the next issue. We got used to it, especially when we discovered that, except for the inescapably global distribution, we didn’t have to abandon any of our founding principles. And, most importantly, it’s still free.”—Ted Byrne

Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.kswnet.org/fire/w_magazine.cfm

“Ygdrasil is dedicated to providing the best in Modern International Poetry and Literature. Ygdrasil is a monthly Publication and welcomes submission from around the world.” Established by Klaus Gerken in 1993.

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.synapse.net/kgerken/

“Ascent Aspirations Publishing is an independent publisher that has been publishing the electronic magazine Ascent Aspirations since 1997.”

“Ascent is a literary magazine that specializes in the darker shades of short fiction in all genres, publishes poetry with an edge, and features creative photography and art.”

International
http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/

“the editors at ebr are particularly interested in critically-savvy, in-depth work that addresses the electronic future of fiction, poetry, criticism, theory, and the visual and performing arts.”

Check out the ebr weave on Electropoetics: “For many who are committed to working in electronic environments, an electronic ‘review’ might better be named a ‘retrospective,’ a mere scholarly commemoration of a phenomenon that is passing. There’s a technological subtext to the declining prestige of authors and literary canons. To bring that subtext to the surface will be part of ebr’s agenda.”—Editor’s Statement

There’s an interesting call for residencies in Riga, the capital of Latvia, to work on ebr’s Electronic Text and Textiles Project.

International
http://www.electronicbookreview.com

“a place where writers from all cultures meet to discuss, debate and communicate”

“International PEN, the worldwide association of writers with 144 Centres in 101 Countries, exists to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere, to fight for freedom of expression and represent the conscience of world literature.”

See also their online magazine.

International
http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/

Edited and published by Karl Young. “This site includes a federation of genre, subject, and author home page, as well as smaller surveys and individual poems. It should give a rough sketch of some of the possibilities of late 20th - early 21st Century poetry from a number of different points of view and means of presentation. This is an anthology rather than a zine, and an anthology dedicated to alternative means of presentation as well as pluralistic forms and subjects. It includes over 60 complete books, new and reprinted…”

And on the topic of anthologies themselves, see Karl Young’s essay/manifesto: Toward an Ideal Anthology.

International
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lighthom.htm

“The podcast for word lovers. Every day podictionary delivers a new short story about the history of a common word to thousands of subscribed listeners.” You can subscribe by podcast or email.

International
http://www.podictionary.com/

PULSE is an online literary journal “featuring fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from established and emerging writers of the literary community.”

International
http://www.heartsoundspress.com/

Archived from 1999-2001, “Readme is an online journal of poetics featuring interviews, essays and reviews germane to contemporary poetry. Poetry published only in tandem with author interviews and/or critical prose, except in cases of poem-as-reading/critique.” Edited by Gary Sullivan.

Check out link directories for 20th (& 21st!) century non-mainstream poets and writers and for online magazines, organizations and ‘theme’ pages germane to 20th/21st century nonmainstream writing.

International
http://home.jps.net/~nada/

Great Scots. Poets introducing poets. The first virtual poetry exchange between Scotland and Canada. Co-hosted by Arc and the Scottish Poetry Library

International
http://www.arcpoetry.ca/greatscots/

“In the present Ubuweb collection of ethnopoetic openings, it’s our intention to build a sampler of what we take to be the second great breakthrough of the modernist poetry project. The search here is for a range of poetries outside the domain of customarily accepted literature. In particular we’re interested, in the spirit of other segments of Ubuweb, in soundings and visionings that are the traditional and often culturally acceptable counterparts to what in our own surroundings have been seen and heard as radical, even disturbing departures from conventional practice. In exploring these we will also be mindful of occasions on which the avant-garde experimental line has merged with or deliberately drawn from other culturally specific traditions.” —Jerome Rothenberg, October 2002

International
http://www.ubu.com/ethno/index.html