November 4, 2019
Archival Poetics–A Hands-on Exhibition and Experiment with the Maud-Olson Library
Archival Poetics: A Discussion and Traveling Exhibition of the Maud/Olson Library Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Ave)…
October 28, 2019
New Book from Dispatches Editor Murat Nemet-Nejat
"Myth is not a narrative applied, but dis-covered. The narrative that emanates against our will revealing ITSELF, A VIOLENT LIGHT that descends and…
October 20, 2019
Call to Boycott Turkish Government Sponsored Academic and Cultural Institutions
We call on academics, artists and intellectuals around the world to oppose the Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria by boycotting Turkish…
October 20, 2019
The Bullet: A Poem from Rojava, by Xoşman Qado [link]
“The same bullet that they use to kill us, they make into a necklace and sell at the market. The bullet is not blind; the wind makes it blind. Only…
October 9, 2019
URGENT CALL FOR A GLOBAL ACTION DAY ON THE 12th OCTOBER
URGENT CALL FOR A GLOBAL ACTION DAY ON THE 12th OCTOBER Against the Turkish Occupation and Ethnic cleansing of KURDS in North & East Syria Since…
October 7, 2019
Spectral Pegasus/Dark Movements: an ekphrastic collaboration by poet Jeffery Beam and artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins [link]
"I quickly realized the poems weren’t flourishing. I gave myself over, as a result, to a sort of automatic writing, much like my youthful surrealist…
October 1, 2019
Poetics of the More-than-Human World — A Call for Work
Poetics of the More-than-Human World A call for poems, hybrid work, and brief manifestos on ecopoetics, for a special issue of Dispatches to be…
September 12, 2019
Dispatches Hiatus
Dispatches will be dark until September 24. Please feel free to come in, take a beer out of the fridge, put your feet up on the coffee table, and…
August 26, 2019
Inciting Poetics — New from Dispatches authors Jeanne Heuving and Tyrone Williams
"The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the book’s opening question, “What are poetics now?” Authored by some of the…
August 20, 2019
A Reply to Bill Freind, on the Bob Hicok/Tim Yu Matter, by Dispatches
Dear Bill, We never thought it would require saying, but Emily Post-Avant (who’s given us permission to respond on her behalf) writes a poetry…
August 17, 2019
Robin Blaser Biography and Photographs
Announcing the publication of A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor The Blaser biography is available for pre-order from…
August 14, 2019
New Olson Study by Joshua Hoenck
"Joshua Hoeynck’s Staying Open: Charles Olson’s Sources and Influences sheds further light on Olson’s inspirations and offers renewed perspectives…
July 12, 2019
Colombia’s verse rebels vindicated but defiant after 60 years [link]
[ “The editors forward this link to the readers of Dispatches as a piece of good news in poetryland, and in anticipation of a post-macho…
June 4, 2019
POBIZ Stock Index Update, 4 June 2019: Po-markets rattled by first verified death from overproduction of bad, self-involved poetry
Creative Writing stocks fall sharply on news of first verified death from overproduction of bad, self-involved poetry — Po-experts predict a…
June 2, 2019
A Message to Our Readers and Contributors
Dear Friends, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is declaring a moratorium, as of this message, on all submissions until further notice. Please do not…
April 23, 2019
A Big Work Presented to All: An Interview with George Bowering and George Stanley (part 1) [link]
"Lyric poetry has been getting a bad name in the past decade or two, at least among the poets and critics I like to hang with. I take part in the…
April 20, 2019
Garrett Phelps reviews Amanda Berenguer’s Materia Prima [link]
“Most striking about Berenguer’s poetry is its sheer constructedness, which is as flagrant as those exposed brick interiors with a grid of metal…
April 16, 2019
Dispatch #44 — A Note on Forrest Gander’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Forrest Gander has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 2019, for his book Be With. He has been a contributor to Dispatches from…