Online poetry, in traditional and multimedia forms, is popular among amateurs and professionals. It allows for global feedback and simulates poetry workshops. Online journals review submissions, and themes vary from broad human conditions to contemporary issues. Social networking provides another platform for personal poetry.
The Internet, due to the wide access to information it provides, has become a popular forum for the submission of all forms of poetry by amateurs and professionals alike. Online poetry commonly exists in traditional forms, such as haiku, lyric poetry, limericks, and ballads. The structure of the websites also allows for multimedia online poetry involving audio, video, visual and textual elements that could not all be presented through typical print media. Some websites allow anyone to post almost any poem, and allow others to read the poems and post comments; others, just like print magazines, have strict editorial standards and accept only specific poems.
One of the major benefits of online poetry is that it allows the poet-in-training to publish his poetry and receive criticism from a potentially large and global audience. Such amateur poetry is one of the most popular forms of online poetry. People from different backgrounds with different backgrounds in poetry and other forms of literature may review and comment on poems published by amateurs. This simulates poetry “workshops” held offline where people gather to discuss and critique poetry written by their peers. The Internet offers people who have neither access nor time for such workshops a similar resource to use in improving their poetry.
Not all poetry online is written by amateurs or posted for the purpose of receiving criticism. There are many online journals, or “e-zines,” that review each submitted poem before displaying it. Such sites often receive hundreds of submissions or more and choose only the best ones to display on their sites.
The variety of different types of poetry online is at least as large as the variety of types of printed poetry. Some online poets prefer to stick to forms with strict rhythms and rhyme structures while others prefer less restrictive styles. The themes addressed in online poetry also vary as much as those in printed poetry. Some focus on broad elements of the human condition, such as life, death, and love, while others focus on contemporary issues, such as politics, privacy, and social issues.
Social networking has provided another forum for posting poems online, many of which are uniquely personal and unsupported by professional literary motivations. Poems provide an interesting and exciting way for people to express themselves to their friends on social networking sites. Social networking also gives people additional literary ambitions to publicize their work by showing it to their online social connections.
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