July 18, 2018
Steven Galloway in his own words: I’m not a monster. I won’t let false allegations define me (link)
"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)
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)
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)
Protest Batsheva at Dance Fest Israel 70
June 17, 2018
Welcome to the June 2018 Update of Dispatches from the Poetry Wars
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
Letter Wheels, by Nico Vassilakis
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
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
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
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
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
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
--"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…
May 31, 2018
A Guest Open Letter on Abuse and Complicit Silence in the Poetry Field
Why have the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, Omnidawn, PennSound, Wave Books, and Wesleyan…
May 31, 2018
A Guest Open Letter on Abuse and Complicit Silence in the Poetry Field
In the wake of learning of the decade-plus history of abuse carried out by a well-known American poet, as described in a feature at Dispatches from…
May 28, 2018
Dispatch #34 – Barry Goes Ballistic, or, How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot while Accusing Others of Racism
Recently, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars posted a long exchange between Barrett Watten and Nathaniel Mackey. The post included salvaged texts from a…
May 27, 2018
Commedia, by I Goldfarb — New from Dispatches Editions
"Goldfarb makes the reader into a poetry sensitive nymphette." —Andrei Codrescu "I admire in Goldfarb this copious density, this fecundity of…
May 26, 2018
Dispatch #33 – When personal is political
Dispatches is aware of the criticism circulating on social media regarding its posting of the Nathaniel Mackey/Barrett Watten Exchange. The primary…
May 26, 2018
Dispatches to Barret Watten, 24 May 2018
In the light of Barrett Watten's recent Blog post (25 May 2018) which attacks Nathaniel Mackey and Dispatches co-editor Kent Johnson with a barrage…
May 23, 2018
Dispatches welcome Linh Dinh
Dispatches is extremely pleased to announce that Linh Dinh, poet and photographer extraordinaire, has joined our Contributing Editors. We are…
May 23, 2018
The Barrett Watten / Nathaniel Mackey Encounter
The first part of this extended Dispatches feature is an excerpt from a long exchange that took place on Barrett Watten’s Facebook page, May 8-11,…
May 23, 2018
A review of Francis Levy’s Tombstone — Not A Western, by Evan Harris (link)
"Mr. Levy’s project is an earnest and driven seeking. All those jokes are mined as fuel to keep the inquiry moving forward. Those who are there —…
May 21, 2018
Dispatches Welcomes Rasula and Poirier as Contributing Editors
Dispatches s pleased to announce that Jed Rasula and Julien Poirier have signed on to Dispatches as Contributing Editors. Jed Rasula is a poet and…