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POETICS FOR THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD:
An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary
edited by Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, and Sarah Nolan
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Emily Post-Avant
- Emily Post-Avant: Her Final Posting for Dispatches– “Postcard from a Dying Poet” 4/9/20
- Emily Post-Avant, on the Presence of Poetical Spookiness in a Time of Plague, 3/19/20
- Emily Post-Avant, on the AWP Coronavirus Petri Dish, Privileged White Poets, and Indigenous Dancers, March 12, 2020
- Emily Post-Avant on the San Antonio 2020 AWP, Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak, even as a Worse Virus Runs Rampant in the Poetry Field, 3/4/2020
- Emily Post-Avant: After More Mint Juleps than WCW Ever Had at One Sitting, on Matvei Yankelevich’s Exposé regarding the Corporate-State Prize/Grant Grab of the Poetry Field, 2/22/2020
Dispatches
Documents
Dispatches Editions
Video/Audio
Visual Work
Comix
Portfolios
The Reluctant Assassin
Cultural Revolution Posters
- Even herdspeople from the MFA programs of Saskatchewan love to purchase many copies of Wave Books!
- Smash the old poetry and build a new world of Post-Avant Thought with Attack of the Difficult Poems as an intellectual weapon!
- To the AWP we go, with avant-garde joy and revolutionary determination!
- Stop where you are, Robert Duncan, Ed Dorn, and Charles Olson, running-dog imperialist enemies of our University Vanguard! You shall not pass!!
- Avant poets! Submit to our munificent Poetry Foundation with measureless gratitude and allegiance!
Pobiz updates
- Po-Biz Stock Report, 7 March 2019 —Yale Series of Long-in-the-Tooth Younger Poets Prize Reassures Shaky Markets
- Po-Biz Stock Index Update, 12 December 2018 [POC VIP PO Inc. Stocks Rocket after Kevin Young Appears on Front Page of NYT Business Section]
- PoBiz Stock Index Update, 7 December 2018—Feds Take Down Rogue Poetry Plagiarist in Daring Café Raid
- PoBiz Stock Index Update, 8 August 2018 – Nation Poetry Scandal Rocks Market
- Po Biz Stock Index Update, 15 July 2018 [Walt Whitman, Trigger Warnings, and CA Radcon]
Commentary
- Dispatch #54 — Hasta la vista, baby
- An extract from A Life of Olson, & a Sequence of Glyphs on his Life, Work, & Times
- “The Human Title,” excerpted from Olson on Shakespeare: The Late Plays and the Post-Modern Present,
- Pandemic Poetics, or Navigating the Shifting Forces of Social Gravity
- Shelter in Poems
Poetry
Fiction
Letters
Virtual Chapbooks
Noticings from the Field
Tarot readings
- What does the future hold for Dispatches?
- Tarot reading #4 — Will Trump be crushed under Mueller’s magnetic hoofbeat?
- Tarot reading #3 – What will the ecology of North American poetry be, 50 years from now . . .
- Tarot Reading #2 – Will my 19 year old son quit his shit job at Rexall and pick up his horn again?
- “Imaginary Iconology” – a Tarot methodology