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About The Internet Poetry Archive
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>About The Internet Poetry Archive</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/ipa/style.css" /> </head> <body> <div id="pre-header"> </div> <div id="header"> <a href="index.php"><img src="/ipa/images/ipa_header.png" alt="Internet Poetry Archive" /></a> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <div class="block"> <h2><img src="/ipa/images/thepoets.gif" alt="The Poets" /><!-- The Poets --></h2> <ul> <li class="arrowed"><a href="/ipa/heaney.php">Seamus Heaney</a></li> <li><a href="/ipa/komunyakaa.php">Yusef Komunyakaa</a></li> <li><a href="/ipa/levine.php">Philip Levine</a></li> <li><a href="/ipa/milosz.php">Czeslaw Milosz</a></li> <li><a href="/ipa/pinsky.php">Robert Pinsky</a></li> <li><a href="/ipa/walker.php">Margaret Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/ipa/wilbur.php">Richard Wilbur</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="block"> <h2><img src="/ipa/images/adminstrativa.gif" alt="Adminstrativa" /><!-- Adminstrativa --></h2> <ul> <li><a href="/ipa/about.php">About the IPA</a></li> <li><a href="/ipa/contact.php">Contact the IPA</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <div style="text-align:left; margin-right: 20px"> <h2> About the Internet Poetry Archive </h2> <p> <a href="http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/"> The University of North Carolina Press</a> joins the <a href="http://www.unc.edu/">UNC Office of Information Technology</a> in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive. The archive makes available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts. </p> <p> The archive includes the work of living poets from around the world. The initial unit features seven poets, including <a href="levine.php">Philip Levine</a> and Nobel Prize winners <a href="heaney.php"> Seamus Heaney</a> and <a href="milosz.php">Czeslaw Milosz</a>. Using the capabilities of the Internet to present sound and graphics as well as text, the archive entry for each poet comprises audio clips of the poet reading several poems, the poet's comments on the works, a photograph of the poet and any other graphics that would help a reader understand the poem (e.g., a map or illustration of a particular place mentioned in the poem), texts of the poems, a critical biography of the poet prepared by a scholar familiar with the poet's work, and a short bibliography. Poems are presented in their original languages, as well as in English translation. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/wordpress/"> Paul Jones</a>, the project coordinator, is himself a published poet. He has assembled an editorial board of scholars and poets to help select the poets and vet all materials. Board members are William Harmon, Gerald Barrax, Linda Wagner-Martin, Dillon Johnston, and Reginald Gibbons. Partial support for this effort is being provided by <a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> and <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/">Ibiblio.org</a>. </p> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p> Sponsored by the <a href="http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/">University of North Carolina Press</a> and <a href="http://www.ncarts.org">the North Carolina Arts Council</a>. </p> <p> Created and edited by <a href="/pjones/index.html">Paul Jones</a> <b>(<i>paul_jones@unc.edu</i>)</b> </p> <p> with the kind assistance of Dykki Settle, Chris Colomb, Max Leach,Kelly Jo Garner, clark mccabe, David McConville, Donald Sizemore, Marisa Brickman, and Mark McCarthy. </p> <p> 2006 Layout, Design and Audio encoding by <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/yugen/">TJ Ward</a> and <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/dlucas/">Dan Lucas</a> </p> <p> Project editor: <a href="mailto:carlos@unc.edu">David Perry</a>, editor for UNC Press. </p> </div> </body> </html>