PoetryNet
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"I am going down to the shallow edge to begin again,
Joseph, with a first line, with an old net, the same expedition.
I will study the opening horizon, the scansion's strokes of the rain,
to dissolve in a greater fiction than our lives, the sea, the sun."
--Derek Walcott, from "Italian Eclogues, iv"
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.