Latest Dispatch
Featured
Two Letters: One to Mark Nowak and another in reply to Chris Fischbach, Publisher of Coffee House Press, regarding a troubling matter in Nowak’s recent book, Social Poetics
[Versions of the following two letters were emailed by Kent Johnson to Mark Nowak and Chris Fischbach, respectively, on March 25th. The one to Nowak, here, is significantly revised and…
Latest News
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is not taking unsolicited submissions at this time.
Thank you for your interest.
— Fric & Frac
Index
View the full upload list per category.
Emily Post-Avant
- 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
- Emily Post-Avant: On the Matter of Who Is Presently the Greatest Living Poet of “America,” and Certain Intriguing Rumors that John Ashbery May Have Faked His Death and is Now Hiding in British Columbia, 2/20/2020
Dispatches
Documents
- When Paul Nelson, Dispatches’ interview editor, almost died in the wilderness . . .
- “The Place & the Thing & the Act, of the Action,” by Charles Olson; Introduction by John Faulise
- At the Fence Line — A Non-Descriptive Tale (1973) by Albert Glover & John Clarke
- Clashing and Conflicting Voices: A Review of The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek
- Tom Clark Memorial
Dispatches Editions
Video/Audio
Visual Work
Comix
Portfolios
The Reluctant Assassin
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
- Microreviews, Vol. 16
- Two Letters: One to Mark Nowak and another in reply to Chris Fischbach, Publisher of Coffee House Press, regarding a troubling matter in Nowak’s recent book, Social Poetics
- At a Chinese Restaurant, in LA
- Working Notes on Ballad Practice 1
- Projective Verse, Space-time, and Attention
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
Companion Publications
Lost & Found
Rain Taxi
Chicago Review
Lana Turner
Lunar Chandelier
