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
December 31, 2018
Materia Prima, by Amanda Berenguer (link)
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is pleased to announce the publication of Materia Prima by Amanda Berenguer edited by Kristin Dykstra and Dispatches'…
December 23, 2018
Burt Kimmelman and Pierre Joris Join Dispatches’ Contributing Editors
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is deeply pleased to announce that Burt Kimmelman and Pierre Joris have joined its prestigious list of Contributing…
December 21, 2018
Rasula Joins Dispatches Editors
Dispatches from the Poetry Wars is extremely pleased to announce that Jed Rasula has joined its Editorial Board.
December 20, 2018
Help Sotère Torregian
Dear Friends, Please chip in to help out the poet, Sotère Torregian tackle a host of medical expenses. Sotère is bedridden, having trouble getting…
December 15, 2018
Bill & Lou, Part II The Descent of Winter By Tom Sharp (excerpted from The Objectivists) (Link)
‘Louis Zukofsky took Ezra Pound’s suggestion to edit The Descent of Winter by William Carlos Williams for “Exile 4”. Williams began the sequence “on…
December 15, 2018
Dispatch #41: An Informational (but Ethical) Note on the Poetry Foundation’s Leadership Team
Dispatches, during its annual address to the Augean Stables of the Professional Poetry Industry, stumbled upon a shocking bit of information as we…
December 15, 2018
How the CIA Helped Shaped American Creative Writing (link)
“The Iowa Writer’s Workshop “emerged in the 1930s and powerfully influenced the creative-writing programs that followed,” Bennett explains. “More…
December 13, 2018
Po-Biz Stock Index Update, 12 December 2018 [POC VIP PO Inc. Stocks Rocket after Kevin Young Appears on Front Page of NYT Business Section]
Poetry stocks, which had returned lackluster overall results over the past two quarters (partly due to chronic plagiarism rumors—see PoBiz Stock…
December 7, 2018
Reply from Dispatches to Julien Poirier, 12/6/2018
Hi, Julien. Thanks for your letter. As we have often said, we love getting critiques, and not least from folks like you who are on our editorial…
December 7, 2018
PoBiz Stock Index Update, 7 December 2018—Feds Take Down Rogue Poetry Plagiarist in Daring Café Raid
PoBiz stock markets rebounded sharply today on news that the Federal Poetry Police (FPP) had apprehended master Po-thief, Amy Poole. Her poem, “Gun…
December 2, 2018
Zukofsky and Williams, by Tom Sharp (excerpted from The Objectivists) [link]
The extent of the friendship and mutual influence of Louis Zukofsky and William Carlos Williams is not sufficiently known. Williams’ autobiography…
November 17, 2018
A look at Charles Olson through the works of Kate Colby, Amanda Cook and Kate Tarlow Morgan (link)
A look at Charles Olson through the works of Kate Colby, Amanda Cook and Kate Tarlow Morgan at the Gloucester Writers Center:…
November 10, 2018
The Disturbing Case of Whitman at Southold, Long Island
With the permission of Dan Molinoff, for his mother, the late Long Island historian Katherine Molinoff, we make available here the pamphlet…
November 8, 2018
So You Think There Are No Poetry Wars?
On November 1, the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog published the first of a series of posts by its current guest blogger, Brenda Coultas (The Eye in…
November 7, 2018
Benjamin Zephaniah will not work for ‘oppressors’ as poet laureate (link)
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…