February 8, 2018
Introduction to A Question Mark above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem “By” Frank O’Hara
[This redacted epigraph, a single-line quote by Kenneth Koch from Brad Gooch’s biography of Frank O’Hara, City Poet, is to the following…
February 7, 2018
James Baldwin delivers earth shattering speech at Cambridge University during a debate with William F. Buckley
https://youtu.be/NUBh9GqFU3A
January 30, 2018
Extensions of Poetry, by Larry Goodell
Extensions of Poetry 20Jan2018 larry goodell (1) Also check out Larry's archive at Granary Books
January 29, 2018
CADA: Lessons for Poetic Revolts to Come, by Kent Johnson and Robert Neustadt (from the new issue of Lana Turner Journal)
From the new issue of Lana Turner Journal: http://www.lanaturnerjournal.com/ CADA final proof red
January 27, 2018
Microreviews, Vol. 4, by Justice Poeticus
Why God Is a Woman Nin Andrews BOA Editions, $16.00 The Michael Pence Reading Advisory Committee has evaluated this text and recommends the…
January 26, 2018
A new history of Poetry, Poets and Community in Bolinas, California, 1967 – 1980 (link)
DREAMING AS ONE: Poetry, Poets and Community in Bolinas, California, 1967 - 1980, by Kevin Opstedal (link)
January 26, 2018
“A World of Wake-Believe”: Thoughts On Robert Podgurski’s Wandering On Course, by Norman Finkelstein
Finklestein - Podgurski Review2
January 25, 2018
A Tribute to Edmond Caldwell [link]
A Tribute to Edmond Caldwell (5 July 1961 – 31 July 2017)
January 24, 2018
The Cult of the Noble – contra Rebecca Watt and Holly McNish, by John Rigney
Rigney -The Cult of the Noble (3) For further discussions of these issues, see also: Curses and verses: the spoken-word row splitting the…
January 18, 2018
A Journey through the Hymns of Poetry: a Review of Barin Ghosal, by Runa Bandyopadhyay
Hymns of poetry-Reviewed by Runa
January 17, 2018
Letter L, from A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, by Richard Kostelanetz
Kostelanetz letter L
January 17, 2018
Footnote on a Footnote: Some Thoughts on Kevin Young’s Bunk, by John Bradley
Footnote on a Footnote Some Thoughts on Kevin Young’s Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News By page 330,…
January 15, 2018
The Recent Movement of Bengali Poetry and New Poetry, by Barin Ghosal – tr. Runa Bandyopadhyay
Recent Movement-Runa
January 15, 2018
Descort, by Meredith Quartermain
I walked along my street but it wasn’t mine was it, it was the city fathers named it, marked it on unceded land. I walked along my street but it was…
January 15, 2018
Introduction to the new edition of Investigative Poetry, by Edward Sanders
Dispatches Editions and Spuyten Duyvil Press will be issuing a new edition of Edward Sanders' Investigative Poetry in 2018. We are pleased to publish…
January 15, 2018
Review of Lewis Warsh’s Out of the Question – Selected Poems 1963-2003, by Tod Thilleman
Thilleman - Out of the Question review of warsh
January 15, 2018
The End of Language, by Burt Kimmelman
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January 6, 2018
Dispatch #30 — A Thorn in the I (part 1)
http://www.dispatchespoetrywars.com/dispatches/2018/01/dispatch-30-thorn-part-1/
January 3, 2018
The Truth about ‘Cultural Appropriation’, by Kenan Malik (link)
"What really lies behind the debate about cultural appropriation is not ownership but gatekeeping – the making of rules or an etiquette to determine…
December 20, 2017
Microreviews Vol. 3, by Justice Poeticus
Poet in Spain: Federico Garcia Lorca Translated by Sarah Arvio Knopf, $35.00 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Lorca, and Lorca was the…
December 20, 2017
"W.S. Merwin, Great American Translator of World Poetry." For more on this, see the letter on Ange Mlinko and W.S. Merwin from Emily Post-Avant