May 29, 2017
A Brief Exchange on the Poetics of Politics, between Charles Alexander and Kent Johnson
http://dispatchespoetry.com/articles/letters/2017/05/1274
May 22, 2017
Ghostly Nostalgia, Kitsch, and Post-History, by Bill Freind
In “Free Speech for Poets Dispatch #1: Ann Coulter!,” an unnamed Dispatches editor (who I assume is Kent Johnson) decries the “proto-Stalinism” of…
May 9, 2017
Dispatches contributor Annie Finch on Literary Sexual Abuse
"About six months ago, I learned that several of the people who had posted comments in response to my first and second posts on Literary Sexual…
May 7, 2017
Love and State, by Murat Nemet-Nejat
"The genius of fascism is that it is based on love. The leviathan of state turns into a performer of gentle punishment, loving duress. In fascism,…
May 4, 2017
Michael Boughn on various apocalypses
"That’s all fine and well and very intellectual, but there’s another dimension, too, much less cool and brainy: guns. Guns have surpassed people as…
April 10, 2017
Interview of Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson, by Reforma, daily newspaper in Mexico City
Interview of Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson, by Reforma, daily newspaper in Mexico City 1. Could you please tell me how the…
March 14, 2017
Poetry and Resistance, Introduction to Resist Much / Obey Little, by Kent Johnson and Michael Boughn
Poetry and Resistance It seems incredible that this very thick book, here in its finished form, was conceived, solicited, selected, assembled,…
February 20, 2017
Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson
Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Michael Boughn and Kent Johnson, editors of Dispatches from the Poetry Wars and its new…
February 15, 2017
The Big Neruda Problem Dispatch #1
Twenty-two years ago, the hit film Il Postino ignited something of a Pablo Neruda craze in the U.S., leading to a massive spike in sales of the great…
February 15, 2017
The End Time of the Human Operating System (HumOS), by Don Byrd
http://www.4chan.org And you live in a place where there are forums on topics ranging from science and math, guns, and finance to various specialized…
February 15, 2017
The Love of Poetry: a review of Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry, by Henry Gould
The Love of Poetry
February 15, 2017
The thought and/or magic in Jerermy Prynne’s The White Stones, by Matt Turner
Prynne Review - Turner
February 3, 2017
Poetry as Air Traffic Control, by Shao John Thorpe (1984)
Thorpe Air Traffic Control2
February 3, 2017
The Community of The Curriculum of the Soul, by Joanne Kyger
Kyger - The Community of THE CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL
November 30, 2016
Color at the Mercy of Light, by Benjamin Hollander
One of Ben Hollander's last pieces, on whiteness and color:
November 4, 2016
Why Don’t More Women Contribute to Websites Like Dispatches?, by Meredith Quartermain
Twice in the last couple of weeks I’ve been asked by male editors to help them get more women contributing to their projects. Eighty percent of…
November 3, 2016
A View from Iceland: an Interview with Eríkur Õrn Norðdahl, by Linh Dinh
A View from Iceland-An Interview with Eirikur Orn Norddahl--Linh Dinh (1)
October 9, 2016
What We Stand On: 3 Progressive Platform Planks (as of Sept. 18, 2016), by Andrew DuBois
What We Stand On: 3 Progressive Platform Planks (as of Sept. 18, 2016) 1. Abortion Must Stay Legal This is non-negotiable. “Women have a right to…
June 14, 2016
Charles Olson and Finding One’s Place, by Joe Safdie – A lecture given at the Gloucester Writers’ Center June 1, 2016
“I’m a cosmopolitan,” said my friend Jerry Rothenberg, when I told him the title of this lecture; “I’m not sure I want to find my place.” I remember…
June 1, 2016
Charles, Frances, Ralph, and me, by Sharon Thesen
The recent fracas that followed an audience “question” about how Black Mountain College could call itself progressive when it was patriarchal,…
June 1, 2016
Truth is that which flees, poetry is never where you look for it, by Eric Gelsinger
Against my own intentions, I wrote you all something. Depending on your reading habits, it may prove long for an email in spite of its fundamentally…
May 14, 2016
Maud / Olson & Me, by André Spears
In anticipation of the “official launch” of the Maud / Olson Library in Gloucester in the late spring of 2016, I’ve been asked by friends in and…
May 14, 2016
A Light From the Ground, by Ferreira Gullar – tr. Chris Daniels
Gullar tr Daniels A LIGHT FROM THE GROUND