PoetryNet

<body LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#800080"> <font SIZE="5"><p>PoetryNet </p> </font><p>Your browser does not support the frame format of this site. To view the site in a more conventional format, click <a HREF="guide.html">HERE</a>.</p> <p><font size="2">                               "I am going down to the shallow edge to begin again,<br>                                 Joseph, with a first line, with an old net, the same expedition.<br>                                 I will study the opening horizon, the scansion's strokes of the rain,<br>                                 to dissolve in a greater fiction than our lives, the sea, the sun."<br>                                                                 --Derek Walcott, from "Italian Eclogues, iv"</p> </font><font size="3"><p>PoetryNet is a loose association of poets willing to cast into uncharted waters. Each of the satellite sites that together form PoetryNet is independently edited by a different poet or group of poets. The freedom from economic and geographic constraints offered by the Internet allows PoetryNet to escape considerations of personality, purse, and proximity to a degree perhaps impossible in traditional print forums. Tangled in these pages, you will find many styles and schools of poetry, a wide range of perspective and subject: the unpredictable bounty of our common toil in a sea of words.</p> </font> </body>