October 20, 2019
The Writing of Carolee Schneemann
"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
David Levi Strauss to Dispatches, 13 October 2019 [on the developing situation in Rojava]
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
David Levi Strauss to Dispatches, 9 October 2019 [on the Turkish invasion of Rojava]
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
David Levi Strauss to Dispatches, 8 October 2019 [on the situation with the Kurds & Rojava]
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
Poetry Wars, 1984 — Documents from the Poetry Flash, including “Of Duncan and Zukofsky on Film: Traces Now and Then” by David Levi Strauss
Ron Silliman responds to David Levi Strauss David Levi…
March 13, 2018
The News from Rojava, by David Levi Strauss
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
Ergo Erdogan, by David Levi Strauss
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
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…
September 1, 2017
David Levi Strauss to Dispatches, 8 October 2016
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
BILL BERKSON IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID LEVI STRAUSS
[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
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…
April 11, 2016
David Levi Strauss to Dispatches, 11 April 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…