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November 7, 2018

Benjamin Zephaniah will not work for ‘oppressors’ as poet laureate (link)

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Writer and dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah has ruled himself out of becoming the next poet laureate of England, saying he has "absolutely no interest" in…

November 6, 2018

Some Assembly Required – Bill Berkson’s Memoir In Pieces (link)

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Some Assembly Required Bill Berkson’s Memoir In Pieces When talking about Bill Berkson certain assumptions must be addressed.  That he was a…

November 6, 2018

Complete archive of Michel Deguy’s PO&SIE now available (link)

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The complete archive of PO&SIE is now available on line   Note that Charles Olson’s “The Ring Of” and “I, Maximus of Gloucester to You” are…

October 25, 2018

What Whim Has Wrought: An Interview about Dispatches from the Poetry Wars with Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson conducted by Steven Manuel (link)

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What Whim Has Wrought: An Interview about Dispatches from the Poetry Wars with Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson conducted by Steven Manuel

October 24, 2018

New Poetry from Australia – a Portfolio Edited by MTC Cronin

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October 20, 2018

Photo dispatch from Nashville

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October 10, 2018

Dispatch #40 – Mythtory, complexity, & the Carlson-Wee/Nation affair

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Myth is often presented as some long gone mode of fantasizing explanations for the inexplicable and dismissed as meaningless, especially when…

October 4, 2018

Dispatches Fall 2018 Update

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Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is back after a somnolent summer of whimsy and digressive delight. We swam and fished, wrote poetry and stared…

October 3, 2018

Dispatches Fall Update contents

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Poetry Andres Ajens— Elogio a Jessica Sequeira Ammiel Alcalay – Democracy in Action Omar al-Nakib –  Elahi Sure The Blunt Research Group—Good Night…

September 25, 2018

Readings by Young Poets, 1974

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September 25, 2018

Duncan for sale

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September 24, 2018

intent. 1.2 (Summer 1989)

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September 24, 2018

Neruda’s Ghosts (link)

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"Pablo Neruda’s only daughter, Malva Marina, was born in Madrid, in August 1934, and died a little over eight years later, in Nazi-occupied Holland,…

September 23, 2018

Remembering 1968, by Eric Powell (link)

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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

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…