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The first Chinese and English bilingual poetry magazine, Poetry Sky, has been available online since 2005. Founded by US-based poet Yidan Han, the website presents modern poetry in both English and Chinese, features interviews with poets, and includes sections for both poets and critics. From the main page, users can navigate to Poetry Quarterly, an online magazine, which features Chinese and English-language poetry in translation from a wide range of writers. Huiyin Lin and Qijiao Cai are among the Chinese poets whose work is featured on the site, while contemporary American poets featured here include Robert Creeley and Charles Wright. English-language poets whose work appears in Chinese translation include Sylvia Plath; Emily Dickinson; and Robert Frost.

Linguist Rick Aschmann spent years creating this painstakingly detailed map of regional American and Canadian dialects. Aschmann has been steadily adding to it as people from all over the U.S. send him audio samples of themselves speaking. In addition to the videos people send him, Aschmann says he made the map from information he found on several language websites, from the Atlas of North American English, and also by watching a lot of online videos of people who he says retain their local dialect well, like politicians, gospel singers and NASCAR drivers.

The Contemporary American Poetry Archive (CAPA) is an electronic archive which aims to make freely available on the Internet out of print volumes of 20th Century American poetry. The material is arranged alphabetically by author and copyright information on reprinting the works is provided. The site provides limited biographical information about the poets. At present about seventy volumes are archived. Books from commercial, university, and small presses are eligible for archiving; self-published and vanity press books are not considered. The archive is supported by Connecticut College, Department of English and Connecticut College Libraries.

The primary goal of the Text Creation Partnership is to create standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early printed books. We transcribe and encode the page images of books from ProQuest's Early English Books Online, Gale Cengage's Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Readex's Evans Early American Imprints.This work, and the resulting text files, are jointly funded and owned by more than 150 libraries worldwide. Ultimately, all of the TCP's work will be placed into the public domain for anyone to use.

The Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction numbers over a thousand titles. Focusing on English writers and imprints, it is unique in its coverage of minor authors writing in this genre and in its holdings of original and subsequent editions of their works. Although its holdings consist mainly of English imprints issued from 1765 to 1830, it also contains American, French, and German editions dating from this time period.

THE CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH (COCA)

Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK

The "Archive for New Poetry" website is hosted by the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, and contains an extensive research collection of resources relating to American poetry and poetics in the period after 1945. The archive aims to represent experimental writing and alternative approaches to writing in English, and focuses on the "New American" poets, the Black Mountain poets, the Objectivist movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, and the language writers. Writers represented in the Archive include Paul Blackburn, Jackson Mac Low, Carl Rakosi, Clayton Eshleman, and Lew Welch.

gender Inn is a searchable database providing access to over 8,400 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature.

Organizzato per periodi storici il sito fornisce una competente guida di supporto alla ricerca di informazioni in rete sugli autori americani.