January 10, 2019
Dispatch from inside Olson’s Brain at the MOL in Gloucester
Dispatch from inside Olson's Brain at the MOL in Gloucester cor
June 15, 2018
Archaic Assumptions, by André Spears
And now again for something completely different: not to belabor the point but the discovery, from about 10 years ago, that Lascaux's Rotunda was…
February 21, 2018
Trumpet of the Digital Apocalypse, by André Spears
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September 15, 2017
Pipe wars, from André Spears
Magritte's famous painting is a reply to André Breton & Paul Eluard, who wrote (in La Revolution Surréaliste # 12, 1929): " La poésie est une…
September 4, 2017
André Spears to Dispatches, 4 September 2017 — on idiotic taxonomies of writing
Dear Dispatches: A well-known poet of my acquaintance made the astounding remark that, as a poet, he had no interest in reading Proust, because…
July 8, 2017
Ship of Fools 2, by André Spears
Note: Ship of Fools 1, which combines earlier pieces originally published in House Organ, was recently republished in the Spring 2017 issue of…
May 23, 2017
André Spears to Dispatches, 23 May 2017
So, what we need is another "pope" issuing excommunications from his pulpit in the avant-garde, after Breton & Bernstein: Johnson? Just shoot…
May 14, 2016
Maud / Olson & Me, by André Spears
In anticipation of the “official launch” of the Maud / Olson Library in Gloucester in the late spring of 2016, I’ve been asked by friends in and…
May 13, 2016
André Spears to Dispatches, 12 May 2016
Dear Dispatches, Lemme say that I've followed Dispatches w/ interest, not to say glee (no Facebook in Iran… instead the faces of Khomeini…