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]

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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

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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

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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]

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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)

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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

A Buffalo celebration of 1968

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November 10, 2018

The Disturbing Case of Whitman at Southold, Long Island

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  With the permission of Dan Molinoff, for his mother, the late Long Island historian Katherine Molinoff, we make available here the pamphlet…

November 9, 2018

A Portfolio of Work in Honour of Gerrit Lansing

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November 8, 2018

So You Think There Are No Poetry Wars?

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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)

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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 4, 2018

Three photos of Robert Creeley and others, Waldoboro Maine, c. 1990

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Front: Susan Howe, Robert Creeley, Michael Boughn Back Row: Hannah Creeley, William Creeley Hannah…

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