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E P C . N e w s    *    Special Issue    *    No. 3 (August 1, 1995)
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                   ELECTRONIC POETRY CENTER
                        Annual Report
                         July 1995
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The following information details transactions of the Electronic
Poetry Center (EPC), a World-Wide Web based site for poetry and
poetics housed at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Information about its resources as of the end of July, 1995 are
presented in this report.
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I. NUMBER OF TRANSACTIONS

Number of transactions per month:

           Month	Transactions
           1/95            7935
           2/95            7940
           3/95           10370
           4/95           11994
           5/95           13458

Counts only include directories having ten or more transactions per
month.
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II. POETICS

The EPC maintains resources related to the Poetics Program at Buffalo,
SUNY Buffalo, including the Wednesdays at Four Plus calendar, and the
archive of the Poetics discussion list. Also maintained are files of
syllabi and other pedagogically relevant materials. At present, the
Poetics archive comprises 24 files and a total of roughly 9.6 million
bytes.
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III. ITEMS "PUBLISHED"

The Electronic Poetry Center, comprised of roughly 640 files in 85
directories, accomplishes the bulk of its "publishing," in addition to
its Poetics files and the publication of RIF/T magazine, in three main
areas: the author library, electronic journals it distributes, and
information on print small presses it provides. Following is
information on these three areas.

1. Authors Presently Linked (35 authors)

* Charles Alexander
* John Ashbery
* Charles Bernstein
* Lee Ann Brown
* Basil Bunting
* John Cage
* Andy Clausen
* Larry Eigner
* Benjamin Friedlander
* Chris Funkhouser
* Elena Garro
* Lydia Gil
* Loss Pequen~o Glazier
* Jorge Guitart
* Matthew Huddleston
* Michael Joyce
* Robert Kelly
* Judith Kerman
* Richard Kostelanetz
* Joel Kuszai
* Hank Lazer
* Jackson Mac Low
* Nathaniel Mackey
* Sheila E. Murphy
* A.L. Nielsen
* Charles Olson
* Peter Quartermain
* Joan Retallack
* Jim Rosenberg
* Jerome Rothenberg
* Leslie Scalapino
* Susan Schultz
* Kenneth Sherwood
* Martin Spinelli
* Katie Yates

2. Journals Currently Distributed/Housed at the EPC (12 Journals;
   approx 88 issues / 402 files) Does not include journals to which
   links are provided (housed elsewhere)

   The following selected electronic poetry journals are distributed by
   the Electronic Poetry Center. Unlike many Internet sites, these
   journals are provided in collaboration with their editors to
   provide texts that are as "authoritative" as possible.
   
     * Brink / Plymouth, Devon, UK 
     * DIU / Albany 
     * Experioddi(cyber)cist / Florence, AL 
     * Inter\face / Albany 
     * Passages: A Technopoetics Journal / Albany, NY 
     * Poemata - Canadian Poetry Assoc. / London, Ontario 
     * Juxta/Electronic / Charlottesville, VA 
     * RIF/T: Electronic Space for New Poetry, Prose, & Poetics 
     * Segue Foundation/Roof Book News / New York 
     * TREE: TapRoot Electronic Edition / Lakewood, Ohio 
     * TREE: TapRoot Electronic Edition (Hypertext) / Lakewood, Ohio
     * We Magazine / Santa Cruz 
     * Witz / Toluca Lake, CA 
       
3. Listings of Print Small Presses (Approx. 70 files/items)

The EPC provides listings for print small press publications. In
addition to information about sources of information about small
presses, and lists published both in the U.S. and U.K. of experimental
magazines, the following files are presently offered in the
categories, mags, presses, and sources.

_Magazines_____
antenym
chain
compound.eye
coppertales
elephant
first.intensity
impercipient
interruptions
kiosk
littlemagazine
meaning
na.ideophonics
olson.minutes
open.letter
pbriefs
poetry.ny
raddle
situation
skylab
southerly
tinfish

_Presses_____
avenue.txt
avenue_b_list
bdeck.txt
generator
herisson
leave
meow
meow.spring_95
o_books
potes.txt
public.works.apr95
reality.street
roof.txt
segue-p.txt
st-hill.txt
story_line
sun_and_moon
tailspin
texture
viet
wellsweep

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Prepared by Loss Pequen~o Glazier, Director, EPC, July 31, 1995 in
cooperation with Ken Sherwood, Projects Director, and Charles
Bernstein, Poetics Program, SUNY at Buffalo.