A large number of authors, poets, publishers and institutions offer online depositories of free downloadable PDFs and documents. By envisioning free circulation of contemporary and historical documents, they allow writing to move without financial constraint across geographic borders — enabling writing to remain actively engaged with. I post PDFs of all of my own work online and I’ve regularly posted this image entreating authors to imagine a new form of circulation and community development outside of copyright. These resources do precisely that:
- Penn Sound
- electronic poetry center
- Fred Wah’s Digital Archive
- bpNichol.ca Digital Archive
- Ubuweb
- eclipse archive
- Jacket2’s inventory of digitized magazines
- Malmo, Sweden’s Timglaset’s PDF archive of out-of-print editions
- Gothenburg, Sweden’s Viktlosheten Press’s PDF archive of out-of-print editions
- Copenhagen, Denmark’s nonplusultra Press’ PDF archive of all of their editions 2019-2022
- London, Canada’s Spacecraft Press’ PDF archive of out-of-print editions
- Anthony Etherin
- Christian Bok
- Aleator Press
- Monoskop
- The Black Panther Newspaper
- The Digital Comics Museum
- The Capilano Review‘s 50 years of back issues
- Belladonna* offers all of their out-of-print chaplets as free PDFs