David Levi Strauss, Author at Dispatches Poetry Wars

October 20, 2019

"Carolee Schneemann has been putting her body on the line for over thirty years in art. The line is that “threshold of consciousness” where, as…

October 13, 2019

Dear Dispatches, The most important thing now is to put pressure on governments to 1) impose economic sanctions on Turkey and stop military aid, 2)…

October 9, 2019

Dear Dispatches: The invasion of Rojava has begun. F16s are leaving to strike Rojava from the same airbase they previously left to strike…

October 8, 2019

Dear Dispatches: Trump made the decision to abandon the Kurds and Rojava on the fly, in a conversation with his bro Erdogan last night (Sunday…

August 24, 2018

Ron Silliman responds to David Levi Strauss David Levi…

March 13, 2018

On Friday, March 9, 2018, Havin Guneser, of the International Initiative for Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan — Peace in Kurdistan, based in Cologne,…

February 19, 2018

What happened outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington this week was my kind of “brawl.” That’s what the stupid Fake News kept…

September 14, 2017

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…

September 1, 2017

Hi Dispatches Duncan McNaughton just sent me this: I think Steve Emerson sent it to him. I then sent it to my daughter Maya, and she wrote back…

August 17, 2017

[On April 25 [2006], poet and critic Bill Berkson came to Rail headquarters in Greenpoint and sat down to discuss his life and work with David Levi…

August 15, 2017

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…

April 11, 2016

Dear All, Michael Taussig, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Dilar Dirik and I have just put together a book on the Rojava Revolution in Northern Syria, To…

By David Levi Strauss