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…
April 8, 2019
A Stab in the Dark The Milestone Poetry Collection of Border Region Literature by Facundo Bernal/Translated by Anthony Seidman [link]
Bernal has a keen eye and a smart mouth, and this combination provides many satisfactions. Without detracting from Bernal’s book, it’s fair to say…
April 4, 2019
Dispatches Editor Helps to Rebuild Puerto Rico
Dispatches Editor Kent Johnson is currently in Puerto Rico where, instead of handing our paper towels, he is helping to rebuild homes damaged by the…
April 1, 2019
The Duncan/Olson Dichotomy — a review (link)
Adam Katz reviews An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles…
March 19, 2019
Dispatches highly recommends The Age of Disenchantments [link]
This is how Aaron Shulman's recently published non-fiction historical narrative, The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most…
March 13, 2019
Dispatches Contributing Editor Runa Bandyopadhyay Interviews Charles Bernstein (lnk)
"Understanding is to stand under whereas I want to be inside. Clarity, coherence, and expression are often shibboleths that stand in the way of the…
March 8, 2019
Po-Biz Stock Report, 7 March 2019 —Yale Series of Long-in-the-Tooth Younger Poets Prize Reassures Shaky Markets
Poetry markets surged yesterday on hard-driving gains for the new dating company with the cute name — Middle Ages Single Poets, Inc. — on news that…
March 8, 2019
Passwords: Gerrit Lansing with Ruth Lepson, Kate Tarlow Morgan, Robert Podgurski & Charles Stein (link)
“A man of wider and deeper knowledge than almost anyone I have known,” says Pierre Joris of Gerrit Lansing, poet, occult scholar, and confidant to…
March 1, 2019
Jennifer Bartlett joins Dispatches’ Contributing Editors
Dispatches is pleased to announce that Jennifer Bartlett has joined its distinguished and totally awesome list of Contributing. Editors. Welcome…
February 15, 2019
Fun with der Alt Right: Updated, by Steven Augustine (link)
"It happens not infrequently that I’ll casually pop over to a progressive site, to read an article and express an opinion, and suddenly find myself…
February 1, 2019
Dearest Perusers of Poetry Wars & their Dispatches:
So what shall we, in this strange topsy winter, say? That froze in these vortices Dispatches still doth increase day by day? Aye, the days of Trump…
January 31, 2019
Contents, Dispatches Winter 2018/19 release
Dispatches — Winter 2018/2019 Release Poetry James Berger—Threnody for the Death at the Borders Stephen Bett – 3 poems Eliot Cardinaux –……
January 29, 2019
Dispatch #43 — on the Bollingen Prize and new Awards from Dispatches
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars would like to heartily congratulate Charles Bernstein on his prestigious Bollingen Prize Award. Yes, you read that…
January 17, 2019
A review of Dispatches Contributing Editor, Anthony Seidman’s new translation [link]
Dispatches Contributing Editor, Anthony Seidman's translation of Facundo Bernal’s A Stab in the Dark has been reviewed at The Los Angeles Review of…
January 14, 2019
Susan M. Schultz joins Dispatches’ Contributing Editors
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is extremely pleased to welcome Susan Schultz, editor of Tinfish, to it's list of distinguished contributing……
January 11, 2019
Mark Scroggins, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, & Joe Amato Join Contributing Editors at Dispatches
Dispatches is extremely happy to announce that Mark Scroggins, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, and Joe Amato have joined the list of contributing editors…
January 10, 2019
Dispatch #42 – On Linh Dinh’s duplicitous, hateful rhetoric
Dispatch #42 – On Linh Dinh’s duplicitous, hateful rhetoric