December 6, 2018
Julien Poirier to Dispatches, 6 December 2018 [on Ms. Emily and Tracey K. Smith]
Dear Dispatches: I like the latest post from Emily and also the new poem by Brad Cran. About the post. I haven't particularly enjoyed the Tracy…
May 16, 2018
When Smoke Broke Up with Mirrors, by Julien Poirier
Call it the onset of some kind of craziness, but I actually feel personally responsible for the Israeli military’s murder of Palestinian protesters…
January 29, 2018
Julien Poirier to Dispatches, 28 January 2018
Dear Dispatches, It's a matter of creativity, and how ethics are attached to it. It will be a great day when professional poetry institutions…
August 31, 2017
How close to death love leads us, by Julien Poirier
HOW CLOSE TO DEATH LOVE LEADS US David Meltzer’s death bus came and got me on the edge of a microkingdom I’d been sharking since spring, when…
April 27, 2017
Julien Poirier to Dispatches on Coulter, Berkeley, and free speech – 26 April 2017
April 26, 2017 Dear Dispatches – I live in Berkeley and grew up here—was actually conceived underneath the cop car that Mario Savio leapt onto during…