August 16, 2017
Dispatch #6 — PoFo, Inc. Security Slab
An actual remote-controlled Security Slab at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, Illinois. The photo of the Slab is by William Fuller. The photoshopped…
August 16, 2017
Handout #2, John Clarke’s Myth Course, 1965 – from the archives of the Institute of Further Studies
CAUSAL MYTHOLOGY HO2
August 15, 2017
Five Short Essays and Five Short Biographies, by Kent Johnson
– with a nod to the fénéon collective Short Essay on the Queer Relationship between Poetry and Translation The Rabbit of Translation is to…
August 15, 2017
Addressing the poets who are at war over Charles Olson’s Legacy, by Donald Wellman (link)
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 Addressing the poets who are at war over Charles Olson's Legacy
August 15, 2017
Dispatch #13
Dispatches finds it interesting that certain scholars would dismiss Benjamin Hollander's new collection of Letters to Olson sight unseen based…
August 15, 2017
Personal Departures, by Robin Eichle
Personal Departures The last Berrigan gone. April 31, 2016, Murray-Weigel Hall, Fordham University, Bronx – Father Daniel, at the age of 94.…
August 15, 2017
Dispatch #12: Mayday
Muy feliz 1 de mayo, poetas gringos. Y muerte al arribismo en la poesía. – César Vallejo [A very happy May 1st, gringo poets. And death to…
August 15, 2017
An Announcement
Extending its newly begun mission to implacably confront all manner of poetic institutionalization and careerism, Dispatches from the Poetry…
August 15, 2017
Poetry Foundation dolzhna byt’ natsionalizirovana!!
"The Poetry Foundation must be nationalized.
August 15, 2017
Dispatch #11
"The point of building the city, polis, as Blake’s emanative Jerusalem, which he called “liberty among men,” is not to make the citizenry equal in…
August 15, 2017
Dispatch #18 – avant-garde support for Chinese state repression of writers and artists
In case anyone was wondering why LangPo and satellite folks don't speak out on behalf of imprisoned writers and artists in China, check out this…
August 15, 2017
Dispatch # 17 – Resist, My People, Resist Them, by Dareen Tatour
The following poem by Dareen Tatour, a 33 year-old Palestinian poet, has been deemed subversive by the government of Israel. As a consequence, and…
August 15, 2017
Special Dispatch #3 — from Pierre Joris on The Confucius Institute and Chinese language control
Further to the Confucius Institute matters: this organization is more deeply & intelligently involved in controlling and suppressing writing the…
August 15, 2017
David Levi Strauss on Bill Berkson (1939-2016_
First and last a poet, certainly, but also a great writer on art. He was there at the birth of the short-form review, mostly written by poets, and…
August 15, 2017
Dispatches and the Poetry Wars from Bill Freind
You couldn’t find two people who agreed about when it began, how could you say when it began going off? Mission intellectuals like 1909 as the…
August 15, 2017
International Dispatch #2 – Why Palestine: House Arrest of a Palestinian Poet in Israel and the BDS Movement
In the past several years, the BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal…
August 15, 2017
Dispatch #16 – What Is Called a Poetry War
It has come to the attention of Dispatches that there is resistance to the idea of “war” in certain circles Dispatches considers as friends. “I don’t…
August 15, 2017
Emergency dispatch #3
Urgent Event TONIGHT! Belladonna* Collaborative joins Tamaas and 98 Weeks/Research Project Space to partake in an (extended) night of international…
August 15, 2017
Emergency Dispatch #2
Why are so-called progressive "experimental U.S. poets appearing under the auspices of a government that routinely persecutes and imprisons…
August 15, 2017
Special Dispatch #1 (from the dead) – Bad Bed, Hesiod, by John Clarke
On first looking out through Athena’s eyes or the lamb emerging out through the gates of her poor broken heart, the kourotrophos the Society of…
August 15, 2017
International Dispatch #1 – André Spears on Iran
Salam, Dispatches – So, we are back stateside. Been not yet two days, feels like 24. Our trip was incredibly eye-opening. Iran is a…
August 15, 2017
Dispatch #15 – Anger and mockery in the Age of Collins
It has come to the attention of Dispatches that “anger and mockery” have been declared Thoroughly Inappropriate in the Land of Really Happy Bards.…
August 15, 2017
Special Insider Pobiz Dispatch #1 (Entertainment Tonight Edition): Slate’s Article on the Academy of American Poets Gala before Its Radical Revision by the Magazine’s Editors
Stocks have been on the upswing for Academy of American Poets Enterprises (as the magazine Dispatches to the Poetry Wars might put it) with reports…
August 15, 2017
Uncomfortable question #3
Why won't the administrators of the "feminist and postcolonial critiques" of Charles Olson acknowledge the responses to their critiques? When they…