September 10, 2018

When Censorship Is Crowdsourced, by Jonathan Kay (link)

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https://quillette.com/2018/09/09/when-censorship-is-crowdsourced

August 31, 2018

“Remembering 1968,” by Eric Powell (link)

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Remembering 1968 (Scroll down one item)

August 31, 2018

To Make an Omelet of Poetry, by Hiram Addison Jackson (1965-2017) (link)

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To Make an Omelet of Poetry Some Eggs Must Be Broken  

August 22, 2018

Thanks for coming [to the reading], special to Dispatches from a poet in England. (link)

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Thanks for coming (2018) from Grave Berries on Vimeo.

August 9, 2018

PoBiz Stock Index Update, 8 August 2018 – Nation Poetry Scandal Rocks Market

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Shares dropped sharply on the North American Poetry Exchange (NAPX) yesterday, in the wake of the recent NaPo, Inc./Anderwee scandal. There were…

August 4, 2018

USACBI Condemns Attack on Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour and Calls for Solidarity from Artists, Writers and Cultural Workers (link)

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USACBI Condemns Attack on Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour and Calls for Solidarity from Artists, Writers and Cultural Workers (link)   Resist,…

July 31, 2018

David Herd on Charles Olson, Hannah Arendt, and the Declaration of Human Rights (link)

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David Herd on Charles Olson, Hannah Arendt, and the Declaration of Human Rights

July 30, 2018

An open letter to John Harris from Dispatches, 30 July 2018

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Dear John – There’s a lot we would like to respond to in your open letter to George Bowering, but we will limit ourself to one central point so as…

July 29, 2018

Dispatch #38 – Mythic ideologies, ideological myths, and the other kind: Poetry, poetics, and the questions of myth

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Back in May Dispatches from the Poetry Wars posted a conversation between Nathaniel Mackey and Barrett Wattten, reprinted from a Facebook thread and…

July 25, 2018

Po Biz Stock Index Update, 15 July 2018 [Walt Whitman, Trigger Warnings, and CA Radcon]

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PoBiz markets fell 500 points just after opening yesterday on news of a recent interview with popular poet CA “Comandante” Radcon. Radcon, in the…

July 20, 2018

Dispatch #37:  On Sexual Abuse in the Poetry Field and Consistency of Principle

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Following our link at Dispatches to the personal testimony of the falsely accused and cursorily condemned novelist Steven Galloway, former Chair of…

July 18, 2018

Steven Galloway in his own words: I’m not a monster. I won’t let false allegations define me (link)

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"I realize that anything I say will be used against me. I will be accused of victim-blaming and discouraging victims from coming forward. The hatred…

July 14, 2018

August Poetry Postcard Fest 2018 Official Call (link)

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The August Poetry Postcard Fest was initiated in 2007 by poets Paul Nelson and Lana Ayers. 2018 marks the twelfth year of the fest and this is your…

July 9, 2018

Dancing Resistance (link)

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By dancing illegally in the streets, Iranian women are protesting the arrest of Maedeh Hojabri and resisting uptight,  Patriarchal old men’s attempt…

July 7, 2018

Protest Batsheva at Dance Fest Israel 70 (link)

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Protest Batsheva at Dance Fest Israel 70      

June 17, 2018

Welcome to the June 2018 Update of Dispatches from the Poetry Wars

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On April 1, the start of National Poetry Month, which, as we pointed out at the time, also happens to be the national day for celebrating lies,…

June 15, 2018

Recent Visual Work by Six Artist/Writers

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June 15, 2018

intent 2.1 Late Spring 1990

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intent 2-1 1990a

June 15, 2018

Letter Wheels, by Nico Vassilakis

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from "Toward Vispoetics"   Staring Staring at language Staring at sound Staring at water Staring at wood Staring at sequence Staring at light…

June 8, 2018

Bunk’s Bunk—Bill Freind Reviews Kevin Young’s Bunk

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​Kevin Young’s Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News is certainly timely: we live in an era in which…

June 6, 2018

Dispatch #36 – The Shame of the Poetry Field

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As many poets are by now aware, Timothy Donnelly, BK Fischer, and Stephania Heim, Poetry Editors of the Boston Review—long a prestigious venue for…

June 5, 2018

The Old Roman, by Roman Jakobson

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There was a time when I was young And surely marked for History. In school I drank and had great fun, Exploring ancient prosody. My favs were…

June 5, 2018

New searchable data base at Maud/Olson library

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 Dispatches has just gotten word from the Maud /Olson library that the “database” to the collection is now searchable online & is linked to the…

June 3, 2018

Dispatch #35 – Irregular poetical rules & agita

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Dispatches has lately found itself under scrutiny for breaking some rules, and the back channel judgments have been harsh. The issue is publication…

June 2, 2018

Dispatch #35 – Irregular poetical rules & agita

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--"That's not a regular rule: you invented it just now." "It's the oldest rule in the book," said the King. "Then it ought to be Number One," said…