POETICS list

A number of influential poets and critics associated with various movements in contemporary poetry, including Marjorie Perloff and Charles Bernstein, were list subscribers.

[2] It was run on servers owned by University at Buffalo, and was associated with the school's graduate program in poetics.

The Poetics List is not a venue for the posting of free-standing, personal poems or journal entries.

People who wished to join the list were asked to provide a short "personal statement" before being approved.

[4] In 2001 the list served as the main forum for a protest against the appointment of Billy Collins as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.