The Hypertexts

The HyperTexts is an on-line poetry journal with a simple goal: to showcase the best poetry, literary prose and art available to us. We are not a "formal" journal or a "free verse" journal; we simply publish the best poetry we can find. We ask our poets to provide us with their career-defining work (that is, career-defining in their opinion, not so... meone else's); thus, most of our poems have been published elsewhere. While other poetry journals seem to quail at the thought of their poems having been read elsewhere, we sincerely doubt that anyone has ever been harmed by reading good poems more than once! Oxford University called The HyperTexts "dynamic and challenging" with a "different approach" to poetry, on its ARCH resource page for the Arts & Humanities. The full entry can be read here . Are we making a difference? Well, not long ago we passed 11 million page views and just recently we noticed that two less-well-known poems that we've been touting for years"Wulf and Eadwacer" and "The Highwayman"are now in Google's top 25 for searches like "the most popular poems of all time." So it's quite possible that we've helped increase readership of two of our most-mentioned poems. "Tom o' Bedlam's Song," a third poem in Google's top 25, may also be a beneficiary of our labor. Around twenty years ago we noticed that there was not a single correct version of the poem online; all the versions we found contained serious errors. To our knowledge, we were the first website to publish this magnificent poem without glaring errors. We have also been touting the work of outstanding-but-obscure poets like The Archpoet, Thomas Chatterton, Digby Dolben, Anne Reeve Aldrich and Agnes Wathall. If they get more recognition in the future, our efforts may have helped. In any case, we're certainly trying! Furthermore, a number of poems that we've published have "gone viral" in big ways, getting republished hundreds of times or more. So we do think we're making a difference, by helping poets and readers connect. The Best of The ...Read More