August 17, 2017
Dispatch #3
A book to come In the very near future, when the virtual blogs and the discussion boards will have collapsed, a book will be printed in the tradition…
August 14, 2017
from “Looking for (Mrs) Laura (Riding) Jackson, the anti-social people’s poet, from Jamaica (Queens) to Woodruff Avenue (Brooklyn), by Benjamin Hollander”
The paradox Riding came to after she renounced poetry was this: she realized how poets could learn that the public, too, were gifted with the powers…
December 18, 2016
Woman in Kimono, a story
Susan Lewis's magazine, Posit, has posted a story by our much missed partner in crime, Benjamin Hollander, finished shortly before he died. Except…
November 30, 2016
Color at the Mercy of Light
One of Ben Hollander's last pieces, on whiteness and color: https://therumpus.net/2016/11/color-at-the-mercy-of-the-light/
October 31, 2016
An excerpt from The Letters of Carla, the letter b. A Mystery in Poetry with a foreword by The Future Guardian of the Letters and an afterword by Benjamin Hollander, forthcoming from Chax Press
from The Letters of Carla, the letter b. A Mystery in Poetry with a foreword by The Future Guardian of the Letters and an afterword by Benjamin…
August 14, 2016
Benjamin Hollander to Lucas Klein, 15 August 2016
Lucas, you write: “I understand that language isn’t private property, and that my intent doesn’t matter as much as my effect once I’ve written…
April 19, 2016
An Open Letter to Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Daniel Tiffany on the events at Poetry: The Kinetics—Black Mountain College’s Literary Descendants: Readings and Conversations at the Hammer Museum, LA, April 14 2016, with Michael Palmer, Michael Davidson, Duncan McNaughton and Rachel Blau DuPlessis, by Benjamin Hollander
On April 14, 2016, the Hammer Museum at UCLA held an event billed as “Poetry: The Kinetics—Black Mountain College's Literary Descendants” in…
April 15, 2016
Dodge Ball in Dodge-Verse-Ity and how the Poetry Foundation’s Blog of Harriet played along, by Margie Plymouth Rock
(See Margie's poem on the same subject in The Brooklyn Rail: :
June 11, 2015
Benjamin Hollander Responds to CA Conrad, 11 June 2015 [link]
"What most people I agree with politically and whose politics are considered progressive don't even realize is that, when it comes to poetry or…