“The Canadian Poetry Archive features selected poems from over 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets. Digitized from public domain anthologies found in the National Library of Canada’s rich literature collection, the poems represent some of Canada’s most notable poetry from the 19th and early 20th centuries.”

Now under the aegis of Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian Poetry Archive celebrated the First-ever World Poetry Day on March 21, 2000.

Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/canvers/index-e.html

Canadian Poetry: An Electronic Resource is edited by D.M.R. Bentley. This site features a press, a journal, and a Canadian poetry resource directory among other archives.

“The Canadian Poetry Press was founded in 1986 for the purposes of publishing scholarly editions of early Canadian long poems. Since then the Press has expanded its mandate to include editions of the work of the Confederation poets and critical studies of Canadian poetry.”

“Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews is a refereed journal devoted to the study of poetry from all periods in Canada. It is published twice yearly, in the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter…. Its first issue was published in 1977.”

Explore also Canadian Poets:An Annotated List of Resources on the Web, featuring Notable Contemporary Canadian Poets, Confederation Poets, Journals and Literary Databases, compiled and reviewed by Julia C. Obert.

University of Western Ontario, London,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/

Canadian Women Poets is “a research website dedicated to documenting titles of the primary work of, and secondary work about, Canada’s best female poets. Each of the poets included on this site is featured on her own page, which lists primary work and criticism, and when possible, includes biographical details and honours the poet has been awarded.” Co-owned and maintained by Marilyn Rose and Erica Kelly.

Brock University, St. Catherines,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/

“This site profiles the Canadian writers included in Athabasca University’s literature and language courses. However anyone interested in reading and discussing literary works is encouraged to get involved in the literary discussions. In addition to writers profiled by faculty at Athabasca University we have include selected links to existing web sites on Canadian writers.”

Athabasca University (Canada's Open University), Athabasca,  Alberta,  Canada
http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/

“Now in its third decade, Descant is a quarterly journal publishing new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world.”

Sign up for Descant’s email list. See the PDF of contributors from 1970-2006. Check out their internships. And explore their new literary outreach website Now Hear)) This!.

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.descant.ca/

“Library and Archives Canada (comprising the former National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada) collects and preserves Canada’s documentary heritage, and makes it accessible to all Canadians. This heritage includes publications, archival records, sound and audio-visual materials, photographs, artworks, and electronic documents such as websites.”

Check out the list of poets on the Canadian Poetry Archive, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, the virtual exhibition on Canadian Writers, and the Literary Archives.

located in Ottawa,  Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html

“Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s…. Its electronic founder and editor since 1994 is Ian Lancashire, who is a member of the Department of English, University of Toronto.”

The site also includes an online archive of historical “Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry”.

University of Toronto, Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

“Since its publication in book form in 1985, The Canadian Encyclopedia has provided the most comprehensive, objective and accurate source of information on Canada for students, readers and scholars across Canada and throughout the world. As a first source for information on all Canadian topics The Canadian Encyclopedia has continued to grow through several iterations in print and on CD-ROM, culminating in this online version published by the Historica Foundation.”

Canada
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCECategories&Params=A1SUB7CAT228

“Canadian Poets Online has been researched and programmed by three doctoral candidates in the English Dept. at the University of Calgary. As the project currently stands, this site only addresses Canadian poets and poetry…. It is our hope that, in the future, others will want to expand these initial efforts to include more poets and other genres.”

“Through this electronic project, we have provided an organized guide to the chronological, geographical, and publication histories of selected Twentieth-Century Canadian poets writing in English. Our goal is to provide the public and the University community with an organized pedagogical tool to assist research on the history and contemporary concerns of Canadian poetry written in English. “

English Department at the University of Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/frames.html

“Luminarium is the labor of love of Anniina Jokinen.” She first created the site 1996 “to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature.”

It now has over 3300 pages, covering Middle English Literature (1350-1485), Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603), Early 17th Century English Literature (1603-1660), Restoration and 18th Century English Literature (1660-1785). And a Margaret Atwood bibilography to boot.

International
http://www.luminarium.org/

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/

“The Literary Encyclopedia is a state-of-the-art reference work focused on literature originally written in English or translated into English. All of its entries have been written since 1999 by a network of over 1450 scholars and experts (listed here) and edited by a distinguished scholarly board. It can therefore be cited and quoted with authority….”—Robert Clark, Editor, 12 October 2006

The Literary Encyclopedia is “owned collectively by its editors and writers.”

International
http://www.litencyc.com/

Category:Canadian poets, Category:Canadian poetry, List of Canadian poets, List of Canadian writers, List of poets, Poetry anthologies, List of poetry awards, List of years in poetry, Broadview Anthology of Poetry, TISH, Four horsemen, Concrete poetry, Spoken word … just for teasers. Consult. Edit.

International
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

“The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library project (which John Tranter started in 2004 with this prototype Internet site) has been funded with a four-year major Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council. Professor Elizabeth Webby and Creagh Cole, from the University of Sydney, in association with CAL (the Copyright Agency Limited), will head a team of researchers to build a permanent and wide-ranging library of resources on the Internet….”

“As it grows, the Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library project will provide original texts and basic background information on thousands of Australian poets selected by an advisory committee made up of writers, academic scholars, reviewers, librarians and publishers.”

Other offerings: Bookstores in Australia | Survey Articles Contents (with surveys of Australian poetry scene at various times)

Australia
http://www.austlit.com/a/index.html

“The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works…. The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women…. A major focus of the Celebration is the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works.”

You can browse by name, century, country or ethnicity or use their search form. Check out the list of women writers in Canada.

United States
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html

“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/

“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