Best Poetry Blogs

Accredited Online Colleges has issued its 2010 list of the 100 Best Poetry Blogs, which it describes as including sites where readers will “find a range of poetry related help, information and inspiration,” and I am pleased to observe that “One Poet’s Notes” can be found once again among those blogs included. As I mentioned last year when noting the presence of “One Poet’s Notes” on a similar list, I realize such rankings can be subjective or incomplete, and there are many deserving poetry sites online. Nevertheless, I am pleased anytime “One Poet’s Notes,” the Valparaiso Poetry Review editor’s blog, is selected for such an honor.

The 100 blogs are locations cited by Accredited Online Colleges as fresh sources for information about poetry and poetics. I was again impressed this year by the fine company on the list, which includes many blogs I regularly enjoy visiting for entertainment and enlightenment about poetry or other topics concerning writing and the arts, from well-known and well-funded sites—like the blogs of the Poetry Foundation, the New York Times, or Writer’s Digest—to the personal blogs of various poets, such as Sandra Beasley, Alfred Corn, Lori Desrosiers, Paul Lisicky, Diane Lockward, Ron Silliman, Allen Taylor, and a number of others.

I also look forward to exploring some of the sites about which I had not yet been aware, and I invite readers to browse through the list to discover new voices and additional locations for information about poetry, poetics, creative writing, literature, or the relationship between poetry and other arts—such as painting, photography, and music.