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December 4, 2019
A Portfolio of Typewriter Art by Frank Singleton
All the pieces in this gallery were created with a manual typewriter using a variety of colored ribbons. [Click on an image to enlarge it.] Earthquake Earth and Moon Cubist Portrait of a Lady composed of the letters of the names Picasso, Braque, Gris, Metzinger, Delaunay,…
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December 6, 2019
Emily Post-Avant: On an Insulting Remark by Charles Bernstein at Best American Poetry about Kent Johnson, 12/6/2019
Dear Emily Post-Avant, We are a grad student in English at the U of Pennsylvania, so we earnestly request you not reveal our name to anyone, much less hint at it in any response you might…
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Poetics of the More-than-Human World
A call for poems, hybrid work, and brief manifestos on ecopoetics, for a special issue of Dispatches to be released in Spring 2020.
We are also interested in reviews of relevant work, critical appraisals, and audio-video work, but query first to ecopoetics2020@gmail.com. Mary Newell and Bernard Quetchenbach are co-editing this issue, which will lead to a print anthology.
Send your text submission by January 1, 2020 to ECOPOETICS2020.
Send videos to David Rothenberg, our media curator, at terranova@highlands.com.
The term “Ecopoetics” loosely describes creative writing that reflects the complex interrelationships within the ever-shifting, endangered ecosphere. In this anthropocene epoch, many acknowledge that “nature” and “culture” are inextricably interwoven. Ecopoetics, then, does not address “nature” as an object for perception or appropriation but as the sea in which we swim or drown, with countless others. Such poetry can be experimental in shape, point of view (such as attempts at decentering the human perspective), and/ or syntax. To open questions or startle readers out of inertia may have more impact than conventional advocacy.
Some possible topics within this broad umbrella are listed below:
- Anthropocene
- Interspecies encounters: writing of/as another species, multi-species vocalizations, queries about how to speak for or about natural “others”
- Cultural, scientific, or indigenous perspectives on the relationship between human, nonhuman, and physical elements of the ecosystem
- Scalar effects and dissonances [e.g., Timothy Clark notes that “what is self-evident or rational at one scale may be destructive or unjust at another”]
- Timescales: Geological or other perspectives involving deep time and/ or deep space: global, intergalactic
- Witness to ecological disasters or remediations
- Investigations of climate change and social justice issues
- Eco-apocalyptic scenarios
- Art/nature intersections
- Place: inhabitation, displacement, virtual spaces, reconsideration of “belonging”
- The role of language – what syntax, diction, structures can do to honor the interconnectedness of the biota, challenge our perceptions, produce a needed shock to action etc.
Please submit your work in .doc, .docx, or pdf format, in Times New Roman 12 or similar type size, except for special formatting. Use pdf to preserve any special formatting. Include a short bio.
Send your submission by January 1, 2020 to ECOPOETICS2020. In case this link is not live in the copy you receive, the address for submissions is <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tA1Usvw1NtvLCwhmn6MmXLySWGNkacMgEkToAotUYFs/viewform?edit_requested=true&pli=1>. If you do not have a Google account, please email your submission to ecopoetics2020@gmail.com.
All submissions will be reviewed by our panel of editors.
Index
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Emily Post-Avant
- Emily Post-Avant: On an Insulting Remark by Charles Bernstein at Best American Poetry about Kent Johnson, 12/6/2019
- Emily Post-Avant: Responds to a Sarcastic Letter from the Leonel Rugama Poetry Dream Brigade, 11/30/2019
- Emily Post-Avant: On Anthony Madrid, Borges, Scary Coins, Spanish Grammar, Homophones, Religious Semiotics, Fictional Hermeneutics, and Pessoa, 11/21/19
- Emily Post-Avant on the Firing of David Fenza, former President of the AWP
- Emily Post-Avant: On the Astro Poets’ Recent Downward Crash through the Glass Ceiling of Stars, 11/5/2019
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
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
Fiction
Letters
- Joe Safdie to Dispatches 12 November 2019 [on Steve Abbot and Ed Dorn]
- David Levi Strauss to Dispatches, 13 October 2019 [on the developing situation in Rojava]
- David Levi Strauss to Dispatches, 8 October 2019 [on the situation with the Kurds & Rojava]
- John Phillips to Dispatches, 28 August 2019
- Johnny Payne to Dispatches, 22 August 2019 [re: Hicok & Yu and the situation of poetry]
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