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The Museum of American Poetics (MAP) is a unique amalgam of poets, students, teachers, scholars, editors, publishers, literary centers, and web-designers. The Museum features a vast array of multimedia investigations that trace the finest in original American Poetics. Since coming online in 1997, MAP has documented major trends in Postbeat poetry through its collection of online exhibits, annual Napalm Health Spa journal, poetics transmissions, video presentations, links and blog. Celebrating the diversity of experimental and outrider poetries leading up to the Beat Generation, MAP has expanded its coverage of world poetry, with special emphasis on international poets on the front lines against oppression. Dedicated to the energy and vitality that characterizes the distinct shapeliness of ars poetica, MAP wires you to global luminescence. Bringing together past and living masters, periods, movements and schools, the Museum of American Poetics is dedicated to the persistent lucid spirit of bards and the contribution of American language arts to planetary consciousness.

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Concrete poetry on Allen Ginsberg's poem "America" (Berkeley, January 17, 1956). School project.

 

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Transmissions

Writings on and about the art of poetry.

Legacy Transmissions
Postbeat Poets Activist Scholarship Project

Napalm Health Spa Archive

MAP's annual online poesy magazine.

 

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African American Poezee
Asian/Pacific American Verse Beings
Daughters of Stein
EuroAmerican Shapeshifters
Ghost Rangers of the Wild
Golden Bodies
Invisible Empires of Beatitude
Latino/a Web Heads
Middle Eastern American Poets
Native American Words Between Worlds
Pioneer Masters
Postbeat Era
The Sexuals
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Magnificent Rainbow: Kids Form Poems
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